Sleeping Beauty

Aleksandr Tyshler

1918

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Aleksandr Tyshler

1898–1980

Born in Melitopol, Ukraine, the son of a carpenter, the artist Aleksandr Tyshler studied in Kiev and, after serving in a propaganda unit of the Red Army, continued his education in Moscow. He worked in various mediums: painting, sculpture, graphic design, and theatrical design. Beginning in the late 1920s and continuing through the 1940s, he designed sets for both the Yiddish- and Russian-language theaters.

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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

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Cartooning & graphic art

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Costume Design for Dovid Bergelson’s The Deaf One

In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…

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King David (Chronicles)

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Illustration of large building set along row of smaller buildings and trees.

Synagogue of the Old Cemetery of Lemberg (L'viv) (Reconstruction)

Józef Awin’s reconstruction of the synagogue in the Old Cemetery of Lwów/L’viv, featured here, reflects his clean geometricity and appreciation for Galician wooden synagogue architecture. The cemetery…

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Sleeping Beauty

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Aleksandr Tyshler

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