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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…
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Ignaz Reiser
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Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
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1928
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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…
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Marcel Janco
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Zurich, Switzerland
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1919
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In the early 1940s, Adolph Gottlieb created a new style of art, known as “pictographs,” which are grid-like compositions or asymmetrical arrangements of boxes. His subject matter was drawn from…
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Adolph Gottlieb
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New York, United States of America
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1946
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Abraham is a dark painting with an off-center black vertical stripe, measuring 6' 10 3/4" x 34 1/2". Its artist, Barnett Newman, said that viewing it was like coming face to face with a tall man. His…
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Barnett Newman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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Mané-Katz may have painted this picture of a traditional Jewish klezmer band from memory, from his childhood in the Russian Empire. By the late 1940s, his previously dark palette had begun to shift to…
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz
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Paris, Provisional Government of the French Republic (Paris, France)
France
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1944–1954
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Chaim Gliksberg was well-known for his portraits of literary figures. Here, he has pictured Itzik Manger, the celebrated Yiddish poet and playwright. Manger was particularly renowned for his modernist…
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Chaim Gliksberg
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1950
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Abraham Rattner painted Design for the Memory in 1943 when the murder of Jews by the Nazis was underway in Europe. He chose Christian iconography, namely, the crucifixion of Jesus, to express his…
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Abraham Rattner
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1943
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Mané-Katz was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Mané-Katz painted in a modernist style but…
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz
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Paris, France
Date:
1930
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This building, photographed by Liselotte Grschebina, is one of approximately four thousand Bauhaus-style buildings constructed in Tel Aviv, the most of any city in the world. The Nazi Party’s rise to…
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Liselotte Grschebina
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1935–1945
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This portrait of Aharon Meskin (1898–1974) exemplifies Ben-Zvi’s cubist sculpture. Meskin was a leading actor in the Hebrew-language Habima Theater, who began his association with the troupe while it…
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Ze’ev Ben-Zvi
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1938