Salomon Garf was a Dutch painter and graphic artist born to a
family of diamond merchants. After studying fine arts at multiple schools, he lived in Amsterdam, where he painted portraits, rural interiors, and still lifes. He was a member of an artist collective founded in 1839 called "Arti et Amicitiae" and received a golden medal in 1933 on behalf of Queen Wilhelmina. He joined the Board of Directors of "Arti et Amicitiae" in 1938, but in 1941, the German occupation ordered him to be removed. Garf joined the Dutch Resistance, helping to create forged idenitification cards for those being victimized and was subsequently arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where he was killed. His art students saved his work before it was taken from his studio.