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vls/2603ojmedigital.ojm.atvdLithografieIllustrationRyback, Issachar BerarttextVisuelles MaterialLithografie191781 x 60PapierRussischer Kubismus. ; Aus der Serie „Shtetl Mayn Khoyever Heym - A Gedenknish“, Blatt VI. ; Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935) "Shtetl ; (My little town, my destroyed home; in memory) ; Verlag "Schwellen", Berlin-Charlottenburg 1923, (330 x 450 mm). - [2], III-XXXI, [1] leaves. Original hard cover. The lithographs are all dated 1917 and signed in the stone (in the plate). Of the 30 half-tone plates (Title + plates numbered from III-XXXI), four are printed in bistre, and the others in sepia or black.This book is complete but without its original list of plates inserted at rear. Title and captions in Yiddish. Ryback initially experimented with Cubism and then turned to painting Jewish subjects in the 1920s when critics and collectors began to appreciate his analytic Cubism and recognize his importance in the Russian avant-garde movement. He was an important member of the Russian Jewish modernist movement that included Lissitzky, Altman, Aronson and Chagall Ryback's powerful images were created as a memorial to the Jewish villages ("shtetlekh") - including his hometown - that were destroyed in pogroms in the aftermath of the disastrous WWI campaign and the Russian Civil War. They depict the peaceful daily life of a traditional Jewish shtetl before the upcoming destructions and massacres: a city street, the artisans (including a shoemaker, a tailor and a knife-sharpener), musicians, the market, the synagogue, a wedding, a funeral, the Jewish cemetery, the rabbi and the Hasidic rebbe. Condition: Cover rubbed, damaged to lower left corner and at edges, with some abrasion. ;Kunstwerk Illustration Druckgrafik Surrealismus Mann Kind BuchOJM_S_119CC BY-NC-ND 4.0still_imageOJM_S_119 https://digital.ojm.at//domainresource/static/graphics/connectors/viewerLogo.gifcc-by-nc-nd https://digital.ojm.at/id/8773 https://digital.ojm.at/i3f/v20/8773/manifest https://digital.ojm.at/proto_ftsearch/8773