Julius Helfft was a German landscape and architectural painter who trained at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and who exhibited his works at academy exhibitions. Several of his paintings were hung in the castles of Wilhelm IV.
By Abraham’s virtue and merit,
turn toward us with compassion;
from on high have mercy upon us,
my Lord, and my redemption:
Hear my voice in the morning.
Have mercy on the people you’ve chosen…
Dad III was created for Family Business, photographer Epstein’s multi-media project about his father, William Epstein, and the fall of his family’s furniture store and real-estate business in Holyoke…
In Exile, a column of Jews makes their way across a barren landscape that evokes the desert that the biblical Israelites wandered for forty years. But the people here are clearly East European Jews…