Leaving Cheder

Adam Muszka

Date unknown, mid-20th century

Painting of two men in winter clothes holding a lantern and walking through the snow, with two small buildings behind them.
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Creator Bio

Adam Muszka

1914–2005

Adam Muszka was a Polish-born painter raised in the town of Piotrków. During World War II, Muszka took refuge in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, before returning to Poland to find much of his former home in ruins. Muszka relocated to Paris, where he painted nostalgic scenes of Jewish life in Poland and also produced several murals in Piotrków and Łódź during his career. Profoundly influenced by painters Marc Chagall and Paul Cézanne, Muszka painted his scenes of Jewish life using colorful, flat, geometric compositions.

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Visual and Material Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century

1939–1973

Jewish visual art flourished and diversified in the postwar period, reflecting the social and political transformations taking place in the world.

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