Chaim Goldberg was a Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, sculptor, and engraver. He is known for being a chronicler of Jewish life in the eastern European Polish villages like the one in his native Kazimierz Dolny in south-eastern Poland. He witnessed the colorful life, began to draw what he saw as the recurring art colony atmosphere became the highpoint of his self actualization dreams seeing himself become an artist like the ones who visited the village. He yearned to experience life as they did for himself, and later undertook the mission of being a leading painter of Holocaust-era art, which to the artist was seen as an obligation and art with a sense of profound mission.
Chaim Goldberg, circa 1995
Goldberg. circa 1995. He could still hear the sounds of his village, the picturesque Kazimierz Dolny in SE Poland by the Vistula river.
Circa 1931, in front of his home before going to the Mehoffer Art Academy on a full scholarship.
Goldberg, the youngest student to be accepted in 1934, with the student body accepted to the Academy that year. (Goldberg is standing to the left of the professor, holding a bottle of wine)
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called "engravings". Engraving is one of the oldest and most important techniques in printmaking. Wood engraving is a form of relief printing and is not covered in this article, same with rock engravings like petroglyphs.
St. Jerome in His Study (1514), engraving by Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer
Artist and engraver Chaim Goldberg at work
An assortment of hand engraving tools
Stone engraving