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Janco and the subject of this portrait, poet Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), played leading roles in creating the Dada movement in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I. Janco made several masks that…
Contributor:
Marcel Janco
Places:
Zurich, Switzerland
Date:
1919
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Memorial, like many of Bak’s paintings, evokes the ruins incurred by the Holocaust, in this case symbolized by the shards of shattered Jewish tombstones, possibly hinting at the two tablets of law. A…
Contributor:
Samuel Bak
Places:
Lausanne, Switzerland
Date:
1986
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This is the frontispiece of a 1661 edition of Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry by Christian Hebraist, and polemical critic of Judaism, Johannes Buxtorf the Elder…
Contributor:
Johannes Buxtorf
Places:
Basel, Switzerland
Date:
1661