Cross posted from Samuel Gruber's Jewish Art and Monuments
by Samuel D. Gruber
Since I'm getting ready to begin teaching my "Jewish Art: From Sinai to Superman" class next week, I thought I'd resume my birthday shout outs for prominent and interesting Jewish artists and architects. Given the name of the course, posthumous felicitations to Lithuanian-born Jacques Lipchitz, born on this day in 1891 in Druskieniki, Lithuania, seem appropriate since a common theme in his later work was that heroic struggle - often involving a Biblical character.
Though not quite Superman, David is a superhero as he struggles with Goliath in Lipchitz's 1933 allegorical piece - an important early artistic statement about the Jewish struggles in Europe at the beginning of the Nazi era. Similarly, a heroic Jacob wrestles with an angel. Both are allegories for the individual and collective struggles of the time.
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