Bidspirit auction | TASHLICH. Oil on Canvas Hendel

TASHLICH. Oil on Canvas Hendel Chenoch Lieberman (1900 -1976) A MASTERPIECE - Tashlich. Oil on canvas. 39” x 34” A massive masterpiece painting, Lieberman captures the essence of Tashlich. It is apparent that it is taking place in Russia. Masterfully painted, Lieberman uses multiple bright colors to achieve the goal of showing the viewer the long gone life of the Old World Shtetel. Painted in 1967 and exhibited in Jacques Lipchitz’s Exhibition of Chassidic Art at Wayne University in Detroit shortly after. The Rebbe sent Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky as his liaison to read a letter at its opening. Lieberman was born Chenoch Hendel Futerfas in Plyeshchanitsy, Belarus, then Russia. He was a Chabad Chassidic artist and the brother of the Mashpia Rabbi Menachem Mendle Futerfas. Lieberman was known in the Chabad community as Feter Hendel (”Uncle Hendel”).In 1925 he married Breina Freidman, with whom he had two daughters. His wife and children were murdered by a Nazi Einsatzgruppe in 1941 while he was serving in the Red Army. In 1946 he left Russia using forged Polish papers and changed his name to Lieberman to avoid detection by the KGB. After living in Paris and London, he moved to Brooklyn as a Chossid of the The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Hendel Lieberman's art depicts Jewish and Hasidic life and customs. His paintings can be seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Chabad rock band Feter Hendel (”Uncle Hendel”) is named after Hendel Lieberman. A tiny area of peeling in the green grass.