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Irene Lieblich (Irene Wechter) was born on 20 April, 1923 in Zamość, Poland, is a Polish-American painter. Discover Irene Lieblich's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As Irene Wechter
Occupation Painter, artist
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 20 April 1923
Birthday 20 April
Birthplace Zamość, Poland
Date of death 28 December, 2008
Died Place Miami, Florida, U.S.
Nationality Poland

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1923

Irene Lieblich (20 April 1923 – 28 December 2008) was a Polish-born artist and Holocaust survivor noted for illustrating the books of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and for her paintings highlighting Jewish life and culture.

She is also a distant cousin of noted Yiddish language author and playwright Isaac Leib Peretz.

Irene Wechter was born on 20 April, the second night of Passover, in 1923 in Zamość, Poland.

She was the daughter of Leon and Chana (née Brondwajn) Wechter in Zamość, Poland.

Her father was in the medical profession.

Her only sibling, a younger brother named Nathan, was murdered at age 13 during the Holocaust.

Irene was a survivor of the Holocaust.

When asked about her experiences as a Holocaust survivor, Lieblich said:"I do not speak of my experiences during the Holocaust. I do not dwell on these moments. What we must remember are the Jewish souls that did not survive and this is what I am trying to do-- capture them to bring back their spirit. They have much to tell us and show us of their lives. Maybe beside[s] an artist, I am now also an historian."

1946

She and Jakob Lieblich married in 1946 and emigrated from West Germany to Chicago, with their son Nathan in 1952.

1953

Daughter Mahli was born in Chicago, in 1953.

1955

From 1955–80, the family lived in Brooklyn, New York, where Irene wrote poetry to be published in Jewish periodicals, notably The Jewish Daily Forward, from the mid- to late 1960s to the early 1970s.

1971

In 1971, at the age of 48, Irene took up painting.

She enrolled in art classes at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where her instructors were impressed with her natural abilities.

Encouraged by her professors, Irene began to exhibit her work in the New York area.

1972

She won first prize for painting at the Art Festival of the Farband in New York in 1972, only a year after she began to paint.

1973

During 1973–74, her work remained on exhibition at Artists Equity in New York, where noted author and future Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer saw it.

Singer insisted that his publishers hire Lieblich to illustrate his books for children, including A Tale of Three Wishes, and The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah.

Another work, Spiritual Lights over Jerusalem, was reproduced on greeting cards by the Women's Division of the Zionist Organization of America.

Singer and Lieblich first met at the Artists Equity gallery on Broadway in 1973, where Lieblich's art was on display.

Lieblich recalled seeing a bent-over man who peered at her paintings and commented that he recognized the houses in them, certain that they depicted his own shtetl.

Indeed, the painting in question did recreate a row of houses in Bilgoraj, the village in Poland where Singer grew up.

This serendipitous encounter prompted Singer to ask Lieblich to illustrate one of his children's books, A Tale of Three Wishes.

1980

In 1980, she moved to Miami Beach, Florida, where she continued to draw and paint.

1995

In 1995, her works were featured in an exhibition titled Living Memories at the Fontainebleau Hilton, Miami Beach, held in conjunction with the last formal World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors.

2003

The Shtetl Museum at Rishon LeZion in Israel reproduced Lieblich's painting The World of Isaac Bashevis Singer on the poster it issued to commemorate its groundbreaking ceremony held there on 1 June 2003.

2004

Lieblich's works were shown at the National Yiddish Library Gallery in Amherst, Massachusetts as part of a 2004 exhibit celebrating the centenary of Isaac Bashevis Singer's birth.

2009

A 2009-10 exhibition at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York, featured her work on the front cover of the catalogue.

Richard McBee wrote of one of Lieblich's illustrations depicting World War II Jewish Partisans celebrating the holiday of Hanukkah in a snow-filled forest while some keep an armed watch, "The simple composition slowly reveals first courageous piety, then childish playfulness and finally the deadly seriousness of their guards. Jewish faith at work."

Of Singer, Lieblich once said, "My vocabulary is too limited to describe Mr. Singer's genius."

Lieblich and Singer enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship, as Lieblich's art illuminated the spirit of Singer's recollections of shtetl life and traditional Jewish values.