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At first Eternal Wanderers seems like an abstract assemblage of colorful shapes. A closer look, however, reveals a group of people, young and old, with mask-like faces, teetering on tilting ground…
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Lasar Segall
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Dresden, Weimar Republic (Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1919
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The Meeting, Schulz’s only surviving oil painting, obliquely explores a theme he returned to many times in his writing and art, namely, sadomasochism, this time in the context of an encounter between…
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Bruno Schulz
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Drohobych, Second Polish Republic (Drohobych, Ukraine)
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1920
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Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
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Reuven Rubin
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1923
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The Russian Revolution initially lifted restrictions on Jewish publishing, sparking a burst of creativity among Jewish writers and artists. Jewish theater companies experimented with modernist…
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Robert Falk
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ca. 1924
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Soutine was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Eastern and Central European Jews. He has been described as a “liminal” figure. He…
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Chaim Soutine
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1925–1935
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Much of Adler’s work has a Jewish subject. In his native Poland, it was customary for small bands of players to go from house to house performing skits on the holiday of Purim. The group of figures in…
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Jankel Adler
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1931
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In the 1980s, during the AIDS epidemic, Bleckner began creating artworks that explored death, loss, and sadness. His dark and moody canvases included objects, such as urns, vases, and chandeliers…
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Ross Bleckner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1989
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Hershberg is considered one of the leading realist painters of our time. He has said that a true artist sees reality as a “continual feast, a never-ending delight to the eyes,” and hopes that his…
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Israel Hershberg
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1992
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David is best known for painting with encaustic, a combination of beeswax and pigment. A Jew in Germany was painted with encaustic on wood. David often uses religious iconography in his works. In 1979…
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Michael David
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Lellouche produced a series of large paintings, self-portraits or portraits of one or two people, set in panoramic landscapes. In Self-Portrait at Sunset, the artist has…
Contributor:
Ofer Lellouche
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1993