Chaim Goldberg has been hailed as the visual chronicler of Jewish life in Kazimierz Dolny.
Their colors and compositions they speak of a childhood deeply rooted in the way of life before the Second World War in the many towns of Europa from the east.
Born on March 20, 1917, Goldberg was discovered in October 1931 when he was 14 years old by a well-traveled psychiatrist conducting research for a book on Jewish family gestures in the shtetls of Europa from the east.
Since then, Chaim has worked in almost every medium available to the visual artist, from watercolors to sculpture; but throughout his long career, one theme has been central to all of his work: the dignity and the nobility of man.
And it is that Goldberg has a deep knowledge of human values, since he spent a large part of his life looking for them.
As a young man, he moved to Siberia with his family, where the Soviets frowned on his realistic portrayals of simple peasants.
When returning to Poland, he discovered that the Russians had also made it difficult for him to work there. He took his family to Israel and then finally to Americawhere he now lives and works.
However, despite already living in peace, it has remained the main motive of his art, just as it has been for those other two famous Slavic emigrants, Marc Chagall e Isaac Bashevis Singer who has said that Goldberg's work "is enriching Jewish art and the image of our tradition."
Both celebrate the daily life of the village as they remember it from childhood. Goldberg's domestic scenes may be more realistic on the surface, with fewer flights of inspired fantasy, but they're no less true to her time and place.
Despite her death on June 26, 2004, her watercolors remain fluid and lyrical cobras, vibrant in their bright colors.
Its people always seem to be on the move, moving to the rhythm of the happy melody of that proverbial violinist on the roof, and thus, the artist transcends his physical disappearance.