Lewis Feuchtwanger was a German doctor and metallurgist who immigrated to New York City in 1829, where he opened a pharmacy and practiced medicine. He became well known for his collection of minerals and for attempting to introduce nickel silver into U.S. coinage, drawing attention to the combustibility of saltpeter. He was a member of scientific societies in the United States and abroad.
This chart displaying the colors of gems and minerals is from A Popular Treatise on Gems and Minerals by Lewis Feuchtwanger, a German Jewish immigrant to the United States, a doctor who was also well…
Bruskin explored the intersection of his Jewish and Soviet identities in art that took the Soviet Union’s obsession with iconography and slogans in a different and subversive direction. In a series of…
This is one of only four known self-portraits by Camille Pissarro. It was painted around the time that Pissarro and other rebellious artists broke from the traditional art establishment by forming…