A private gallery in Mahwah, New Jersey.

Jacob Shochat assembles and places paintings for private collectors from his gallery in Mahwah, New Jersey. The collection concentrates on three intersecting strands: nineteenth-century European Orientalism and academic painting, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian and Eastern European realism, and works of Judaica. Each acquisition is researched, conservation-checked, and presented with full disclosure of what is known and not known about its history. The gallery operates by appointment and by introduction; inquiries are answered personally.

Artists currently on view

• Friedrich Perlberg

  German, 1848–1921

  Friedrich Perlberg was born in Nuremberg in 1848 and trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he later worked as an illustrator and painter. He travelled repeatedly to the eastern Mediterranean during the 1890s, producing watercolours and oils of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, the Sinai Peninsula, and Egypt that were exhibited and reproduced widely in German and Austrian publications of the period. His work belongs to the late nineteenth-century Orientalist tradition that combined documentary precision with an atmospheric, often devotional sensitivity to sacred sites. Perlberg died in Munich in 1921.

• Viktor Shvaiko

  Russian, 1965–present

  Viktor Shvaiko was born in 1965 in the Russian Far East and trained in the academic realist tradition. He is best known for densely textured oil paintings of European subjects — Venetian canals, Parisian streets, Tuscan terraces, and sacred landmarks — characterised by warm light, layered impasto, and a romantic but precisely observed sense of place. His paintings have been published in widely distributed editions and held in private collections in North America, Europe, and Asia. Shvaiko continues to paint original oils, of which the present Wailing Wall is one example.

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Jacob Shochat Art Collection is open by appointment. To arrange a private viewing of the works currently on view, or to request a curated selection of additional paintings, begin an inquiry or write directly to jacob.shochat@yahoo.com.