Goldberg, Eric, 1890-1969

Eric Goldberg was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1890. He was a Canadian Jewish painter.

His father was a German portraitist. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie Julian, in Paris. After completing his studies, he taught at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and at the Bezalel School of arts in Jerusalem. He married the Canadian painter Regina Seiden, who he met in Paris, in 1928, and went to Montreal for the first time that same year. He spent the following years living primarily in Paris, travelling around Europe, before definitively moving to Montreal in 1935, to escape the menacing atmosphere of Europe. In Canada, he was found of painting the landscapes of Gaspésie, and he became a founding member in 1939 of the Contemporary Arts Society with John Lyman, with who he had studied at Académie Julian. He was also a member of the Eastern Group of Painters. From 1949 on, he taught an art course at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue together with his wife.