Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, Howard Kanovitz began his artistic career as a jazz musician. He took up painting in 1949 while studying at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Students League’s summer school in Woodstock, New York. After moving to New York, Kanovitz initially found success as an abstract expressionist painter in the 1950s and the early 1960s, associating with such contemporaries as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. After his father’s death, Kanovitz began creating works inspired by family photographs, pioneering the photorealist style that influenced many of his successors. His later works continued in this figurative style.
Architect Ignaz Reiser won a contest to design this ceremonial hall for the New Jewish Cemetery in Vienna. Construction began there in 1926. The most prominent feature of the building was its dome, an…
In this cubist-influenced self-portrait, the artist has painted herself reflected in a mirror, perhaps a symbol of a divided self. The upturned vessels on the table communicate a sense of upheaval…
Before the war Bloyne was a rich and elegant Jewish town: wide streets, a large municipal park, several monuments, many tall buildings, large stores. But when the war came through, the town was…