Showing Results 1 - 10 of 37
Weissberg was a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of them Jews from Central and Eastern Europe who had settled in Paris. Weissberg was a well-liked habitué…
Dobrinsky was a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Dobrinsky’s friend and fellow artist Léon Weissberg…
Édouard Moyse’s painting portrays the Grand Sanhedrin, the Jewish high court assembled by Napoleon in 1807 to ratify the answers of an assembly of Jewish communal leaders to twelve questions submitted…
Camille Pissarro was notable among his fellow impressionist painters in that he often put trees at the center of his compositions instead of using them primarily as a framing device. He also…
Samuel Bak’s paintings have been described as surrealist, but they also show the influence of Old Masters, such as Albrecht Dürer and Michelangelo. He himself has said, “I don't mind if people call my…
Digital Image © Tate, London 2018.
In The Turkish Family, the term Turkish is likely a placeholder for a portrait of a modern Sephardic Jewish family like that of the artist. Notably, the family members wear modern European fashions…
Chaim Soutine’s self-portrait is both an homage to art history and a critique of it. There was a long tradition of artists painting themselves facing an easel, holding a palette and paint brushes. But…
He Cast a Look and Went Mad depicts traditional East European Jews in some sort of religious setting but invokes in its title the classic talmudic legend of the sage who “looked and was injured” when…
Soutine was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Eastern and Central European Jews. He has been described as a “liminal” figure. He…
