Shtetl. Mayn Choruver Heim: a Gedekenish [My Destroyed Home: A Memorial]

Estimate

$2,500–$3,000

Hammer price

$4,500

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author

RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER.

printer

Verlag Schwellen

Place

Berlin

Publication

1923

Description

30 tinted and black-and-white lithographs (including title) numbered III-XXXI, all complete

references

Jüdische Lebenswelten Katalog, Berlin (1991) no.7/25 (illustrated)

summary

Following the retreat of Ukrainian Nationalist forces from 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 profound series of lithographs portrays the ravaged Shtetl and expresses the artist’s grief for a world abandoned and now 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

Original pictorial blue suede, shaken (as most all copies). Oblong folio (sheet size 330x490 mm)

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