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The Day of Atonement

Jacob Kramer1919

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
London, United Kingdom

After leaving the Slade, Kramer strove to achieve a spiritual quality in his art without jettisoning his modernist credentials, perhaps driven by a postwar mood of disillusionment. In 1918 a design for a woodcut, entitled The Day of Atonement, appeared in the sole issue of the literary review New Paths, co-edited by Michael Sadleir, son of his patron. Here the procession was simplified to six angular figures; those at the front tilting their mask-like features upwards in poses that anticipate the painting. The text described Kramer as: ‘far more essentially Hebraic in his outlook than Gertler, whose Jewish extraction seems over emphasised. Kramer is a grim bitter realist […] Kramer obtains the effect of Primitivism through a ruthless elimination of all that is unessential’.

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  • Title: The Day of Atonement
  • Creator: Jacob Kramer
  • Creator Lifespan: 1892 - 1962
  • Creator Death Place: Leeds, England
  • Creator Birth Place: Klintsy, Russia
  • Date: 1919
  • Type: painting
  • Medium: pencil, brush and ink on paper
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

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