Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 341 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Series Statement:
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Keywords:
Hirszenberg, Samuel
Abstract:
Samuel Hirszenberg is an artist who deserves to be morewidely known: his work intertwined modernism and Jewishthemes, and he influenced later artists of Jewish origin.Born into a traditional Jewish family in Łódź in 1865,Hirszenberg gradually became attached to Polish cultureand language as he pursued his artistic calling. LikeMaurycy Gottlieb before him, he studied at the School ofArt in Kraków, which was then headed by the master ofPolish painting, Jan Matejko. His early interests were topersist with varying degrees of intensity throughout hislife: his Polish surroundings, traditional east EuropeanJews, historical themes, the Orient, and the nature ofrelationships between men and women. He also had alifelong commitment to landscape painting and portraiture.Hirszenberg’s personal circumstances, economicconsiderations, and historical upheavals took him todifferent countries, strongly influencing his artistic output.He moved to Jerusalem in 1907 and there, as a secular andacculturated Jew who had adopted the world of humanismand universalism, he strove also to express more personalaspirations and concerns. This nuanced study, with over170 full-colour illustrations, presents an intimate anddetailed picture of the artist’s development.
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