Historical painting: One family’s story, in a specially commissioned art piece

Historical painting; cossack horseman 1914 on horse, commanding

A commission for a historical painting Turka is a small town in Ukraine and became the subject of a specially commissioned historical painting. In 1914 at the beginning of World War I, it was in Polish territory, and occupied by Russian forces. The Stieglitz family was a well-to-do Jewish family with a large house in […]