karl (Tobiasz) Haber

Born in Lutomiersk, Poland (1885 - 1943)

Karl (Tobiasz) Haber, Woman with Dark Hair, oil on canvas, 61x46 cm.Karl (Tobiasz) Haber, Woman with Dark Hair, oil on canvas, 61x46 cm.While living in Lodz, Karl Haber worked as an artist's model, and subsequently started painting himself. He left for Paris and lived and worked there for a while, but returned to Lodz sometime in the 1930s.Following the German invasion, Haber moved to Bialystok and worked as a teacher until the Germans arrived there.

In the Bialystok Ghetto, Haber worked in the Oskar Stephens workshop, where he was forced to copy paintings by well-known masters.Karl Haber died in the Bialystok Ghetto in August 1943.