Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Assaph - B
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1998) 243-262
Keywords:
Kaulbach, Wilhelm von,
;
Gottlieb, Maurycy,
;
Hirszenberg, Samuel,
;
Wandering Jew
;
Antisemitism in art
Abstract:
Discusses two paintings by Polish-Jewish artists that polemicized with the image of the Eternal or Wandering Jew (symbolizing divine punishment of the Jews for rejecting the Christian messiah) depicted in "The Destruction of Jerusalem" (ca. 1841) by the German historical painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach. Maurycy Gottlieb's 1876 "Ahasver" transformed the image depicted by Kaulbach into a triumphant royal one. Shmuel Hirszenberg (Lodz 1865-Jerusalem 1907) transformed the image into that of a victim and martyr of Christian persecution, portraying the Jew realistically as an old East European Jew in a forest of crosses strewn with corpses.
Note:
By Maurycy Gottlieb and Shmuel Hirszenberg.
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