The Russian-born painter Abraham Manievich studied painting in Kiev and Munich and enjoyed early success. After the Russian Revolution, he returned to Kiev, where he taught until immigrating to the United States in 1921. His most striking work is in the cubo-futurist style. The mislabeled Destruction of the Ghetto, Kiev (there was no ghetto in Kiev), with its harsh angularity, refers to the Kiev pogrom of 1919, in which one of his sons was killed.
Since the law prohibits one, in no uncertain terms, from depicting figures, the question one may ask is how Jews have had all manner of paintings in their homes? And it is not enough to say that only…
Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul early in his career, when he was working with mostly historical and biblical subjects. Here a young, eroticized David plays a lyre for a darkly brooding King…
Around the time of his move to Amsterdam, the Dutch painter Emanuel de Witte began to produce architectural paintings, particularly of church interiors and other grand buildings. He was interested in…