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Family of Beggars at Entrance to Village
Jacob Steinhardt1930
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History
New York, United States
A group of four, possibly a family, huddled together before a cluster of buildings in the distance. Yellow gouache tints the exposed sections of the woodcut. Inscribed in lower left, signed and dated in lower right.
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- Title: Family of Beggars at Entrance to Village
- Creator: Steinhardt, Jakob
- Creator Lifespan: 1887/1969
- Date Created: 1930
- Subject: Families in art
- Repository: Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History
- Physical Dimensions: w37 x h33.2 cm
- Artist Biography: Jakob Steinhardt (1887-1969), a major exponent of Expressionism, studied with Lovis Corinth, Hermann Struck, and Henri Matisse. In 1912, he co-founded the group Die Pathetiker (The Dramatists), together with Ludwig Meidner and Richard Janthur, which had its first group show at the Sturm Gallery a year later. He fled from Nazi Germany to Palestine in 1933 and taught at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem and later became its director.
- Type: Woodcut
- Rights: This material may be used for personal, research, and educational purposes only. Any other use without prior authorization is prohibited. Please contact LBI librarians at lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org for further information.
- External Link: LBI Art Collection, Center for Jewish History
- Medium: Woodcut with gouache on paper
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