Shtetl. Mein Choruver Heim: A Gedekenish [My Destroyed Home: A Memorial]
AUCTION 36 |
Thursday, March 22nd,
2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts
Lot 225
RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER.
Shtetl. Mein Choruver Heim: A Gedekenish [My Destroyed Home: A Memorial]
Berlin: Verlag Schwellen 1923
Est: $2,500 - $3,000
Following the retreat of Ukrainian Nationalist forces before the Russian Red Army in 1919, mass killings of Jews occurred. One such pogrom took place in Ryback’s birthplace, Yelizavetgrad (presently, Kirovograd), killing his father. This moving series of lithographs portrays the ravaged Shtetl and expresses the artist’s grief for a world he abandoned and was subsequently destroyed.
See Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928 (1987), no.136 i-xxx (illustrated); C. Roth, Jewish Art, col.803