Portrait of Fromet Guggenheim

Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen (ca. 1670–1749) was a rabbi in Altona. His gravestone bears a relief of open books and is inscribed with the titles of his works, each playing on a scriptural phrase involving…

The rough-hewn sculptures that Epstein created early in his career, like that of the painter Jacob Kramer (1892–1962), departed from the conventions of classical Greek sculpture in a radical way that…