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 More1/3 | Yortsayt of Ber Zalkind
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 3 Yortsayt of Ber Zalkind, Artist Ber Zalkind was born in 1878 in the city of Vilna and died 68 years ago today on January 3, 1944 near Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Zalkind was a major part of the visual art scene in his hometown. As a young man, he studied painting in Paris where he was hevily influenced by Impressionism. Hee returned to Vilna where he helped found the Vilna Arts Society and served as its secretary. Zalkind also taught at the city’s schools and was an art critic for the Vilner Tog and Etyudn both based in Vilna, and wrote essays on art and...
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