Artists

Samuel David Landau

American, 1895-1979

Samuel David Landau was born in Warsaw, Poland, and emigrated to the United States as a child. Landau was a Works Progress Administration artist, studied at the Graphic Sketch Club in Philadelphia with contemporaries Sol Wilson and Phil Reisman, was influenced early on in his career by the Spanish Civil War, and was professionally known as Lev-Landau. He worked primarily in oil and casein.