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Apokalyptische Landschaft is one of a series of cityscapes that Ludwig Meidner painted between 1912 and 1916. He was influenced by the work of the Italian Futurists and their depictions of the…
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Ludwig Meidner
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1913
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Marc Chagall’s newspaper vendor, whose pouch holds both Yiddish and Russian newspapers, looks worried. The sky is an alarming red, and the news is not good. The first world war has begun. Chagall…
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Marc Chagall
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1914
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This drawing by Else Lasker-Schüler appeared on the frontispiece of her 1912 novel Mein Herz: Ein Liebes Roman (My Heart: A Novel of Love). Lasker-Schüler created a fantastical world in her poems and…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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Berlin, Germany
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ca. 1912
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Though Jacob Steinhardt came to be best known for his woodcuts depicting biblical and Jewish subjects, this print, made during World War I, evokes the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. Much of…
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Jakob Steinhardt
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1913–1914
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Much of Adler’s work has a Jewish subject. In his native Poland, it was customary for small bands of players to go from house to house performing skits on the holiday of Purim. The group of figures in…
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Jankel Adler
Places:
Weimar Republic (Germany)
Date:
1931
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In 1919, when Kramer painted The Day of Atonement, modernist art depicting Jewish rituals was considered new and radical, especially in tradition-bound England. When the Jewish community of Leeds…
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Jacob Kramer
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Leeds, United States of America
Date:
1919
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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
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1915
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This painting has both figurative and abstract elements. The shapes representing the angel are a dynamic swirl of mystical symbols. Ben-Zion often turned to the Bible for inspiration for his work. At…
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Ben-Zion
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1935
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Red Hammer Man (which debuted in 1912) was used on posters during Hungary’s 1919 revolution and was reproduced over the years as a key figure of socialist propaganda. The heroic figure wielding a…
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Mihály Biró
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1914
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Yankl Adler painted The Mutilated in London during a period of heavy bombing in homage to “the behavior of Londoners under great stress and suffering.” He made two other paintings the same style and…
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Yankl Adler
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1942–1943