Erich Goldberg

Born in Berlin to Richard Goldberg, an accomplished portraitist who encouraged his son’s artistic endeavors, Erich Goldberg studied in Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian and in Berlin’s Prussian Academy of Arts, where he was appointed professor of drawing and painting in 1911. While serving on the faculty of the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Goldberg experimented with Yemenite filigree silverwork. Upon returning to Europe, he participated in a number of public exhibits and salons throughout the continent (and in America). In 1928 he immigrated to Montreal, where he would soon marry the artist Regina Seiden and become a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society. Thereafter, Goldberg became an influential Canadian landscape artist and instructor whose paintings are often recognized for their lyric, dreamy qualities.