Moshe Appelbaum

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Moshe Appelbaum ( Hebrew משה אפעלבוים, Yiddish Mosheh Apelboym , also Mosheh Applebaum , Moses Appelbaum ; born 1887 in Mszczonów , Russian Empire ; died 1931 in Krakow , Poland ) was a Jewish-Polish painter, printmaker and stage designer.

Life

Maurycy Apfelbaum received a traditional Jewish upbringing and showed great talent for drawing from an early age. Since he saw no possibility of realizing his artistic ambitions in the traditionally Jewish living environment, he left his parents' home at the age of 15 and hired himself as an assistant to a painter. In 1903 he got a job as a graphic designer in a local textile company. In 1905 he went to Vienna and attended the art college there . He traveled through Germany and the Netherlands and came to England in 1907 , where he attended an art school in Liverpool for two years . He lived in London until 1916 , where his first, highly acclaimed exhibition took place in 1918. Nevertheless, he returned to Poland in 1919 and lived in Warsaw. There he was co-founder of a Jewish artists' association in 1921 and worked a. a. also for Yiddish theaters , including at the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater (WIKT) and in Międzyrzec Podlaski together with Hirsch – Liber Podolak. He was one of the pioneers of a modern stage design and took up constructivist and expressionist stylistic devices. In the 1920s he created pictures for the synagogues of Łomża and Bedzin . According to Hans Vollmer, these frescoes are no longer preserved.

He participated in many art exhibitions across Europe. His pictures moved in many genres: landscape painting , still life , portrait painting . He often portrayed traditional life in the Jewish shtetl . He also incorporated elements of Cubism and Expressionism into his pictures . In 1931 he died of tuberculosis in Krakow .

In 1931 commemorative exhibitions were held in Warsaw and Katowice by the Jewish Society for the Dissemination of Fine Arts .

literature

  • Chaim Goldberg : Maurycy Applebaum. Jego życie i twórczość. Warszawa 1931. (Polish, also Hebrew edition; translated into German: "Maurycy Applebaum (Moritz Apfelbaum). His life and work").
  • Apple tree, Maurycy . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 248 .
  • Renate Böning: Apple tree, Maurycy . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 4, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-598-22744-2 , p. 508. (Based on the entry by Hans Vollmer).
  • [Obituary] Otto Schneid: Mojżesz Applebaum. In: Miesięcznik Żydowski. Warszawa, Heft 3, 1931, pp. 263-265 (Polish). ( Online ).
  • Jerzy Malinowski: Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów Polskich w XIX i XX wieku. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2000, pp. 369-370 (Polish).

Web links

Commons : Maurycy Apfelbaum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note: The National Library of Israel names 1886 as a different year of birth in the catalog .
  2. ↑ Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland [Pages 563-580]. In: jewishgen.org. Retrieved March 12, 2018 .
  3. ^ Hillel Krakovsky: Appelbaum. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume II ( Alr-Az ), Thomson Gale, 2nd edition, 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865930-5 , p. 285 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Appelbaum, Moshe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apelboym, Mosheh; Applebaum, Moses; Applebaum, Maurycy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter, printmaker and stage designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Mszczonów , Poland
DATE OF DEATH 1931
Place of death Krakow , Poland