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Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948), a Yiddish actor, director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET), and later chair of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was an iconic figure of Soviet Jewish…
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Natan Altman
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1927
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The Traveler was painted soon after the Russian Revolution, around the time that Marc Chagall was appointed commissar of the arts for Vitebsk, the site of Yehudah Pen’s academy, where Chagall had…
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Marc Chagall
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917
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In this cubist-influenced self-portrait, the artist has painted herself reflected in a mirror, perhaps a symbol of a divided self. The upturned vessels on the table communicate a sense of upheaval…
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Sofia Dymshits-Tolstaya
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1915
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Shterenberg is famous for a series of paintings he did in 1917 and 1918, which are sometimes known as “hungry still lives.” A single object, such as a herring or a loaf of bread, is the focus of the…
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David Petrovich Shterenberg
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1926
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Head of a Young Jew, Natan Altman’s most famous sculpture, is an expression of his desire to set a new, modern course for Jewish art. The asymmetrical sculpture, a combination of bronze, copper, and…
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Natan Altman
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1916