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Glicenstein depicted the Jewish Messiah as a semi-nude figure in the classical style, with bowed head and tethered to his seat. It received early recognition, admired by Rodin and praised in the…
Contributor:
Henryk Glicenstein
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1911
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When the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial was erected in 1948, it stood amid the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the key intentions was to convey the message that Jews had not gone to their deaths in the…
Contributor:
Nathan Rapoport
Places:
Warsaw, Republic of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1948
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In The Dead Class, the most famous of Kantor’s theater pieces from the 1970s, the main characters of the play are elderly men (who are to be understood as being dead), who return to their school desks…
Contributor:
Tadeusz Kantor
Places:
Kraków, Poland
Date:
1975