Man with Torah
Yitshak Frenkel (Alexandre Frenkel-Frenel)
1920
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Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke away from the artistic conventions characteristic of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They and Frenkel drew on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to create a new modern art of Jewish revival in Palestine, favoring light colors and naïve, flat painting. This cubist work, done in watercolor, pen, and ink on paper, dates from the period when Frenkel was living in Paris, before he returned to Palestine and established the Histadrut Art School in Tel Aviv.
Credits
Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art.
© Estate of Yitshak Frenkel-Frenel.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 8.
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