Lazar Krestin

1868–1938 (age 70)

Biography

Lazar Krestin, born in 1868, painted with a reverence for the people he portrayed, capturing the dignity and traditions of Jewish life in finely observed portraits.

Those canvases continue to speak of his empathy, and he now rests in the New Jewish Cemetery, remembered for the luminous humanity of his art.

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