Born in Białystok, Max Weber was a pioneer of visual modernism in the United States. His family settled in Brooklyn when he was ten. Weber studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1898 to 1900. After teaching at public schools in Virginia and Minnesota, he moved to Paris in 1905 and immersed himself in modernist art circles. Weber returned to New York in 1909 and introduced cubism to America. Although the initial critical response to his paintings was hostile, a positive appreciation emerged over time. After World War I, his style became less avant-garde and more representational. In 1930, the Museum of Modern Art honored him with a retrospective of his work, the first solo exhibition of an American artist at the museum.
David Yakerson’s Adam and Eve dates from a time before his turn to the much more abstract style of suprematism. In this illustration, Adam and Eve blend in with other decorative elements in a…
Isaac Luria , known as “the holy ARI” (an acronym of his name, meaning “lion”), was one of the most significant figures in Jewish mysticism, famed for pioneering a new conception of theoretical…
Weissberg was a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of them Jews from Central and Eastern Europe who had settled in Paris. Weissberg was a well-liked habitué…