This talk, Modernist Jewish Artists on Religious Themes from the Collection, focuses on Jewish artists selected from the permanent collection of the Derfner Judaica Museum who work, or worked, in modernist styles to portray religious subjects. Ranging from complete abstraction focusing on mysticism to figurative, expressionistic depictions of rabbinical archetypes and biblical figures. The works span the first half of the nineteenth century to the present, exploring how Jewish artists interpret the aesthetic and cultural legacy of religious art through their own unique view. Led by Susan Chevlowe, Chief Curator and Director Museum at the Derfner Judaica Museum.
Image: Zygmunt Menkes (b. Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv, Ukraine, 1896–d. Bronx, New York, 1986), Cohanim Blessing, ca. 1940s. Oil on canvas, 30 x 22 1/2 in. Gift of Erica and Ludwig Jesselson and Family in memory of Leo Forchheimer, HHAR 1007.
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