Creator Bio
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.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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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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Sleeping Beauty
In Alexander Tyshler’s illustration for a Yiddish version of the Sleeping Beauty story, characters seated around a table are packed together like puzzle pieces, enclosed in a rectangular shape from…