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Air Raid Shelter
Amy Julia Drucker
1916
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Born in London to a family of German Jewish descent, Amy Julia Drucker studied at the Lambeth School of Art and then earned her living as a painter, exhibiting widely in England and around the world. Adventurous, she traveled across the globe, painting in China, Brazil, Ethiopia (where she produced a portrait of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie), and Palestine, where she taught drawing in Jerusalem. Drucker painted emotional scenes of poverty, immigration, and hardship, often locating them in London’s East End. She also produced lithographs, woodcuts, and drawings.
…He heard a thud in the living room, heard a thud, and couldn’t identify it: “Are you all right?” he called.
“I was just being careless,” M called back. “I’m all right.”
“You fell. Poor kid. What’d…
Tina Blau is best known for her landscapes, which she painted in the style known as Stimmungsimpressionismus (mood impressionism). She played a key role in developing the style in Austria. Der Krieau…
Jerusalem, our holy city, our soul’s yearning and the joy of our hope! Beautiful landscape, the joy of the entire land, if not the city of a great king (Psalm 48:1) . . . Now we cannot know how it was…