R. B. Kitaj considered himself a figurative artist at a time when abstract art was the dominant trend. His paintings, with their brightly colored and sometimes overlapping figures, produce a collage…
Jeremiah at the Fall of Jerusalem, commissioned by the crown prince of Prussia, and first exhibited to great acclaim at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1872, depicts the fall of Jerusalem to Babylonia in…
Louis Gottschalk wrote “The Water Sprite—Polka de Salon” soon upon his return to the United States after spending most of his teenaged years in Europe, where he was sent by his father to study music…
Polish-born Zvi Hecker is an Israeli architect with offices in Berlin and Amsterdam. His buildings, such as the Spiral Apartment House in Ramat-Gan and the Heinz Galisky Schule in Berlin, are distinguished by their geometric complexity. Hecker’s work has been exhibited in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, New York, Florence, and Berlin. In 1999, he represented Israel at the 5th Venice Biennale of Architecture. He is the recipient of both the German Critic Prize for architecture (1996) and the Rechter Prize for Architecture (1999).
R. B. Kitaj considered himself a figurative artist at a time when abstract art was the dominant trend. His paintings, with their brightly colored and sometimes overlapping figures, produce a collage…
Jeremiah at the Fall of Jerusalem, commissioned by the crown prince of Prussia, and first exhibited to great acclaim at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1872, depicts the fall of Jerusalem to Babylonia in…
Louis Gottschalk wrote “The Water Sprite—Polka de Salon” soon upon his return to the United States after spending most of his teenaged years in Europe, where he was sent by his father to study music…