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Buy lithography (1968 ) , Anatoly Kaplan on the novel by Sholom Aleichem " Stempenyu "

Anatoly Kaplan LVOVICH (1903-1980), born in Rogachev ( Mogilev province ) December 28, 1902 ( January 10, 1903 ) in the family butcher. He studied at the Higher Artistic -Technical Institute ( Vhutein ) in Petrograd - Leningrad ( 1921-1927 ) and at G.S.Vereyskogo A.A.Rylova . Lived in Leningrad , often bumping into their homes in the former Pale of Settlement , where he studied the remaining traces of traditional Jewish life and culture. In 1937-1940 he worked in Vereisky led experimental lithographic workshop LOSH ( Leningrad branch of Union of Artists ) .

In his compositions in the spirit of " silent art " (or some kind of lyrical expressionism ) - mainly black and white and color lithographs - resumed its characteristic motifs of pre-revolutionary " Jewish renaissance ", sought to enter the ancient symbols of Judaism and parochial theme " Yiddish culture " in the mainstream of modern art. Old family photographs , ethnographic sketches, reminiscences sacred decor tombstones in the images Kaplan romantically picturesque alloy. Among his works - the albums on the theme of Sholem Aleichem ( Kasrilovka , 1941; Enchanted Tailor , 1957 Tevye the Milkman , 1961; Stempenyu , 1968) and the cycle of Jewish Folk Songs (1963). Performed as a series of " Leningrad during the blockade" (1944-1949) in his typical shaky , like " flowing " manner . In recent decades, are increasingly advocated as an easel painter , Graph linear amplified home ( cycle of etchings Rogachev , 1970 ) .

His works are in the collection of the State Russian Museum , State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Hermitage , the Vatican Museum , MOMA , the Jewish Museum (New York ) , Dresden Gallery , the Museum of Berlin, and many others.