2/2 | Birthday of Issachar Ber Rybak
Today in Yiddishkayt… February 2 Birthday of Issachar Ber Rybak, Artist Issachar (Yissokher, or “Soukher”) Ber Rybak was born on February 2, 1897 in Elisavetgrad (today Кіровоград, Ukraine). He studied at the Art Academy of Kiev from 1911 to 1916. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Central Committee of the Kultur-lige in Kiev appointed Rybak to be a drawing teacher. In this capacity and inspired by S. An-sky’s ethnographic expeditions, he visited Jewish agricultural communities, memories of which appear in his later works such as the...
Read More1/22 | Birthday of Moïse Kisling
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 22 Birthday of Moïse Kisling, Artist Moïse Kisling was born in Krakow, Galicia (now Poland) on January 22, 1891. He began to draw as a very young child and entered the Art Academy of Krakow when he was fifteen. He studied under a professor who introduced him to French Impressionism and encouraged him to go to Paris. In the 1890s artists coming to Paris began to settle in le Bateau-Lavoir, a commune in the Montmartre area where small studios were rented. It became a haven for Fauvists and Cubists. Among other artists, André Derain, Henri...
Read More12/16 | Birthday of Henekh Barciński
Today in Yiddishkayt… December 16 Birthday of Painter Henryk (Henekh) Barciński The Polish-Jewish painter, printmaker, and illustrator Henekh Barciński was born to a family of poor tailors on December 15, 1896 in Łódz. Along with a group of great Jewish poets, playwrights, and artists, he was a founding member of the Łódz-based avant-garde art group Yung Yidish. Influenced by the artists Oskar Kokochka and Marc Chagall, Barciński studied with the sculptor Henryk Glicenstein, a friend of Auguste Rodin. He received the first prize at the Red Cross Competition in Paris. Yung...
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