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This painting dates to the early years of Walkowitz’s career, when he frequently painted New York cityscapes. Walkowitz’s cubist style was well suited to capturing the skyscrapers, elevated trains…
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Abraham Walkowitz
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
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Lubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, drew on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to create a new modern art of Jewish…
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Arieh Lubin
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1924
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By the 1920s, the Montparnasse artist Chana Orloff was a popular portrait sculptor, inspired by cubism and classical and “primitive” art. Her flowing, smooth-surfaced sculptures in wood or bronze…
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Chana Orloff
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Paris, France
Date:
1924
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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
Date:
1927
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The first version of The Rock Drill, exhibited in 1915, was a white plaster figure sitting astride a real drill, an amalgam of man and machine. The sculptor, Jacob Epstein, originally intended it as a…
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Jacob Epstein
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1913–1915
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Sailor with Guitar is one of Jacques Lipchitz’s early cubist sculptures, an experiment in translating painterly cubist concepts into three dimensions. The figure of the sailor was inspired by sailors…
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Jacques Lipchitz
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1914
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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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Jacques Lipchitz created The Prayer in 1943 to express his horror over the mass murder of Jews, which was then underway in Europe, reportedly crying as he made the statue. The central figure in The…
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Jacques Lipchitz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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By the 1920s, Montparnasse artist Chana Orloff was a popular portrait sculptor. Showing the influences of cubism and classical and “primitive” art, her flowing, smooth-surfaced sculptures in wood or…
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Chana Orloff
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Paris, France
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1924
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By the mid-1920s, Zadkine had shifted from a purely cubist style to a new approach that drew on African and classical Greek art. His subject matter was often inspired by stories from the Bible and…
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Ossip Zadkine
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1927