American painter Leon Golub is known for his large-scale, expressionistic, figurative artworks that draw on classical themes and imagery to address contemporary issues. An outspoken social activist, Golub was politically engaged throughout his career. His work has received critical acclaim and continues to be exhibited at numerous major American and international institutions. In 1951, Golub married fellow artist Nancy Spero.
“Insist on yourself . . .” is from the series Great Ideas of Western Man, an innovative advertising campaign by the Container Corporation of America, which ran from 1950 to 1975. Its mission was to…
Liebeskind’s design for a new extension to the Berlin Jewish Museum was the winner of a 1989 competition and was the first of his designs to be built. Its zigzagging shape was intended to evoke the…
In 1934, the German-Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist Salman Schocken (1877–1959) commissioned Mendelsohn to design a villa for him and his family in Jerusalem, where they had fled from Nazi…