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Steinhardt was one of the founders of a group of artists in Berlin called Die Pathetiker (The Sorrowful Ones), early practitioners of what later came to be known as expressionism. Expressionists…
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Jakob Steinhardt
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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Gutman was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the Bezalel School, drawing on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to…
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Nahum Gutman
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1926
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Der Shokhet (The Ritual Slaughterer) is one of a set of thirty lithographs that Ryback published in 1923 in a book memorializing the Jewish communities destroyed during World War I and in the…
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Issachar Ber Ryback
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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Bezem (d. 2018)’s art, which once gave expression to his immigration to Palestine, the loss of his parents in the Holocaust, and his sense of rebirth in Israel, was dramatically transformed after his…
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Naftali Bezem
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997
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Ben-Zvi’s early paintings focused on ecology and nature. He often depicted human and ecological disasters, calling attention to the fragility of human and animal life. The birds and insects featured…
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Asaf Ben-Zvi
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1989
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Ḥad Gadya (One Little Goat) is a song customarily sung at the end of the Passover seder. It recounts a sequence of events beginning with a young goat purchased by the protagonist’s father that is then…
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El Lissitzky
Places:
Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Issachar Ber Ryback painted Pogrom during the Russian Civil War, when waves of pogroms were occurring in Ukraine and other areas in the former Pale of Settlement. In the foreground a slain man…
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Issachar Ber Ryback
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918
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In the interwar period, Liebermann’s portraits were highly sought after by the wealthy. He also produced many self-portraits. This one, painted when he was in his seventies, portrays him as a self…
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Max Liebermann
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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The rough-hewn sculptures that Epstein created early in his career, like that of the painter Jacob Kramer (1892–1962), departed from the conventions of classical Greek sculpture in a radical way that…
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Jacob Epstein
Places:
Leeds, United States of America
Date:
1921
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Petlin was known for his narrative art and for depicting subjects drawn from his own personal history. Weisswald (White Forest) is a series of nine paintings almost all of which are set on what looks…
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Irving Petlin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1987