Joachim Weingart’s father, who was a wine merchant, died young, leaving his wife alone with two children. Joachim Weingart left his hometown in 1912 to take drawing classes in Weimar. He exhibited his work for the first time in Lwow (Lemberg) in 1912 at the School of Arts and Crafts, and in Vienna in 1914, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts. The industrialist and patron Carol Katz discovered Weingart’s talent and decided to support him, as he also supported Alfred Aberdam and David Seifert. In 1916, Weingart visited Berlin for the first time.

Following World War I, he returned to Galicia and exhibited his art in Lodz. He went back to Berlin in 1922, where he met Menkes and Alfred Aberdam at the studio of the sculptor Alexand...