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Mané-Katz was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Mané-Katz painted in a modernist style but…
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1930
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The Collector dates from the last year of Israëls’s life. It is in the style of Dutch impressionism, which emphasized the essence of a subject, rather than its light and color as did French…
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Isaac Lazarus Israëls
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The Hague, Netherlands
Date:
1934
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R. B. Kitaj considered himself a figurative artist at a time when abstract art was the dominant trend. His paintings, with their brightly colored and sometimes overlapping figures, produce a collage…
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R. B. Kitaj
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Paris, France
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1972–1973
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When Drohobycz (present-day Ukraine) was occupied by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz was initially spared the fate of other Jews in his hometown. Because of his fame as a writer and artist, he was kept alive…
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Bruno Schulz
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1941–1942
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Abraham Rattner painted Design for the Memory in 1943 when the murder of Jews by the Nazis was underway in Europe. He chose Christian iconography, namely, the crucifixion of Jesus, to express his…
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Abraham Rattner
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1943
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Before he became known as a color field painter, Mark Rothko worked in other styles. During the 1940s, under the influence of surrealist artists who had fled Europe for the United States, he began to…
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Mark Rothko
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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Though he was born and lived all his life in North America, Norman Leibovitch’s oeuvre included not only depictions of the Montreal neighborhood where he grew up and Canadian landscapes, but many…
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Norman Leibovitch
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1944
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In the early 1940s, Adolph Gottlieb created a new style of art, known as “pictographs,” which are grid-like compositions or asymmetrical arrangements of boxes. His subject matter was drawn from…
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Adolph Gottlieb
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1946
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Abraham is a dark painting with an off-center black vertical stripe, measuring 6' 10 3/4" x 34 1/2". Its artist, Barnett Newman, said that viewing it was like coming face to face with a tall man. His…
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Barnett Newman
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New York, United States of America
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1949
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Mané-Katz may have painted this picture of a traditional Jewish klezmer band from memory, from his childhood in the Russian Empire. By the late 1940s, his previously dark palette had begun to shift to…
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz
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Paris, Provisional Government of the French Republic (Paris, France)
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1944–1954