People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street
People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street is one of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known works. In the mid-nineteenth century, as part of a trend in European art that was moving away from historical and religious subjects and increasingly focusing on modern life, Friedländer began to shift from the academic painting of his early career to scenes of military and everyday life in Vienna. This painting is also known by the title After the Lottery Drawing. In the center of the work a young woman, dressed in bright colors, unlike the crowd behind her, shows in one hand the lottery ticket that she has probably won. Another woman advances toward her, stretching out her hand as if pleading to be given the ticket.
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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.
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All over the world, Jewish art reflected the hybrid nature of Jewishness, including the material circumstances and cultural milieu of the larger environment. Individual artisans and artists selected and created according to their personal and Jewish experiences.
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