The Last Gottlieb

Sophia Berry Lifschitz, curator of modern and European art at the Tel Aviv Museum, on “Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur”: the masterpiece by the Polish-Jewish painter Maurycy Gottlieb, who died at the age of 23 and produced this work in the last year of his life. About the triple self-portrait that he integrates within the painting, the portraits of characters from his own life and the completion of this great painter with his Jewish identity