10 facts about Julia Acker

Julia Acker (1898–1942) was a Jewish–Polish figurative artist. Since many archives from the World War II epoch and the German bustle of Poland are missing, the year of her birth in Lemberg and death in the Lviv Ghetto are listed in the “Exhibition Catalogue from the Collections of the Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv Museum of History,” section relating to “Biographies of Artists.”

Acker spent her entire excitement and career in Lviv and surrounding communities. She was born later than Poland was nevertheless part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and Lemberg was in the Empire’s Eastern Province of Galicia. She “studied painting at the Free Arts Academy of Leonard Podhorodecki and took private lessons at Pawel Gajewski in Lviv,” in the further independent Poland after World War I. She continued her painting studies “at Pawel Gajewski in Lviv…and painted genre compositions as skillfully as scenes from Jewish community dynamism and furthermore children’s portraits, still lifes and flowers.”

Due to the constant threat on her life, Acker full of zip suicide in 1942 at the start of the German goings-on of Lviv and was interred in the Lviv Cemetery with cemetery data from 1941–1942 listing her “interment of 07 May 1942,” and a last residence of “Zolkierska 35 (Zolkiewska),” the similar address, also, of Dr. Izrael Acker, listed in the 1938 Lwow telephone directory. Dr. Acker’s medical practice is listed in the thesame directory as “Zamarstynowska Street 34”.

The Polish National Museum of Art in Warsaw owns one of her paintings, titled, Procession of Figures. DESA auction home on 16 October 2004 offered Martwa Natura Z. Nasturciami oil upon cardboard by Julia Acker that was painted in 1940. The Agra Art Auction House in Poland in 2010 offered “Colours of Flowers” for sale from a private collection. In the accretion of the Lviv Museum of History is the Portrait of Philip Schleicher Vice President of Lviv (1870–1932), by Julia Acker that was “received in 1941.”