Bernard Zakheim

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American artist muralist painter person

Bernard Zakheim was a Polish-born American muralist best known for his New Deal–era frescoes in San Francisco, where he was a prominent figure in the city’s social realist art movement.

Aliases (1)

Bernard Baruch Zakheim ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American artist → muralist → painter → person →
birthName	Bernard Baruch Zakheim →
child	Nathan Zakheim →
countryOfBirth	Poland →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1898-04-04 →
dateOfDeath	1985-11-27 →
educatedAt	Académie de la Grande Chaumière → École des Beaux-Arts →
employer	Public Works of Art Project → Works Progress Administration →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
familyName	Zakheim →
fieldOfWork	fresco painting → mural painting →
genre	historical mural → religious mural → social realist mural →
givenName	Bernard →
immigratedTo	United States of America →
influencedBy	Diego Rivera → Mexican muralism →
languageSpoken	English → French → Polish → Yiddish →
movement	New Deal art → Social realism →
nationality	American →
notableFor	New Deal–era frescoes in San Francisco → social realist murals depicting workers and intellectual life →
notableWork	Jewish-themed murals in San Francisco → Library frescoes at Coit Tower → The History of Medicine in California →
originalNationality	Polish →
participatedIn	New Deal art programs →
placeOfBirth	Grodno, Poland →
placeOfDeath	Sebastopol, California, United States →
religion	Judaism →
residence	San Francisco, California, United States → Sebastopol, California, United States →
spouse	Helen Zakheim →
studiedUnder	Diego Rivera →
workLocation	Bay Area, California, United States → San Francisco, California, United States →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bernard Zakheim ("Bernard Baruch Zakheim") →	birthName
Coit Tower →	hasArtist