Kurz, Aharon. Plakaten ["Posters"]

Lozowick, Louis

Pinsky-Mazal Press

New York

1927

Yiddish. Front cover with modernistic design by avant-garde artist Louis Lozowick

Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur (1981) Vol.VIII, col.177

Louis Lozowick (1892-1973) was born in Ludvinovka, a hamlet in the Kiev district of Russia and in 1906, the fourteen-year old arrived at Ellis Island, the entry point to New York City. He was immediately struck by the "skyscrapers which later formed the subject of so many of my pictures." Lozowick spent the years 1920-1924 in Europe. In Paris, the young artist was attracted to the school of Cubists, but especially to the Machine Elements of Fernand Léger. Later in Berlin, he was accepted into the circle of Russian Constructivists and exhibited along with Lissitsky in Düsseldorf in 1922. The design on the cover of this collection of Yiddish poems, is representative of Lozowick's early style (1919-1929) - semi-abstract, Cubist, or occasionally Futurist. See J. Flint, The Prints of Louis Lozowick: A Catalogue Raisonné (1982), pp. 12-17. The Russian-born poet Aharon Kurz (1891-1964) writes of contemporary American life: "Union Square," "Passaic," "Fifth Avenue," and the trial of "Saco-Venzetti."