Józef Sandel

Józef Sandel (Yiddish: יוסף סאנדעל; German: Josef Sandel; 29 September 1894, Kolomea – 1 December 1962, Warsaw) was a Polish art historian and critic, an art dealer and collector, and an advocate on behalf of Jewish artists in postwar Poland.

Personal life Sandel married Ernestyna Podhorizer (1903-1984), who was also originally from Galicia and worked for a time as the secretary of the ZTKSP. Sandel-Podhorizer was born in Dembits (Dębica), and before the war had been a biology teacher in Lemberg (Lviv); she was later a curator at the museum of the Jewish Historical Institute, and also worked at the Biology Institute in Warsaw.

External links Jewish Historical Institute: Józef Sandel – biographical timeline Archived 2017-03-06 at the Wayback Machine. Józef Sandel Papers (digitized), in RG 31 Germany (Vilna Archives) Collection, at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Biography Sandel was born in Kolomea (Kolomyia, Ukraine), then in Galicia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The son of a cap maker, he attended the Baron Hirsch school and then gymnasium. Around 1920, he moved to Dresden, Germany, where, in 1925, he co-published a short-lived German-language literary and art magazine, Mob: Zeitschrift der Jungen (Mob: Journal of youths). He subsequently lived in France, Switzerland, and Austria, before returning to Dresden. From 1929 to 1933, he operated an art gallery in Dresden, called Galerie junge Kunst (Gallery of young art). After the rise of the National Socialist regime in Germany, he moved to Belgrade (then in Yugoslavia), where he opened another gallery and mounted exhibitions, in 1933-1934. In 1935, he moved to Poland; he spent time in Vilna (Vilnius) and Warsaw, and published articles on art in Yiddish-language periodicals, including Literarishe Bleter. At the outbreak of the Second World War he fled to the Soviet Union, and survived the war in Kazakhstan, where he taught German in a middle school. After the war, he returned to Poland and settled in Warsaw, in 1946. There he became the leader of the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts; Yiddish: Yidishe gezelshaft tsu…Citește mai mult