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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…
Still Life with a Picture of Napoleon is one of many still lifes that Dezső Czigány painted. Like many of his other compositions, it demonstrates cubist and fauvist influences. In this picture, the…
Boy Holding a Ball is painted in the fauvist style for which Béla Czóbel was best known. It features the bright colors, flat paint areas, and bold outlines that characterize his early work. Czóbel…
Ira Jan
It is my task to introduce to the readers of Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future) to an extraordinary Jewish woman, and it is hard to tell whether she is a greater writer or artist. Those who say…
When Drohobycz (present-day Ukraine) was occupied by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz was initially spared the fate of other Jews in his hometown. Because of his fame as a writer and artist, he was kept alive…
To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…
Abraham Rattner painted Design for the Memory in 1943 when the murder of Jews by the Nazis was underway in Europe. He chose Christian iconography, namely, the crucifixion of Jesus, to express his…
Before he became known as a color field painter, Mark Rothko worked in other styles. During the 1940s, under the influence of surrealist artists who had fled Europe for the United States, he began to…
Morris Topchevsky painted Leaflets when he was an art instructor at the Abraham Lincoln Centre in Chicago, where the majority of students were Black. Here we see African Americans holding posters with…
In the early 1940s, Adolph Gottlieb created a new style of art, known as “pictographs,” which are grid-like compositions or asymmetrical arrangements of boxes. His subject matter was drawn from…
