was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist.
is an Israeli painter and sculptor known by his nickname Sucho.
was an Israeli sculptor born in Ryki, Poland, whose work influenced a generation of sculptors.
Pissarro was a Jewish French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
Pascin of Bulgarian origins, considered one of modern arts great painters known especially for sensitive depictions of women. Based in Paris, he eventually emigrated to the U.S. Prominently featured in recent exhibit of Jewish painters who worked in Paris, at New Yorks Jewish Museum.
Freud was a Jewish British painter who was the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His works are in a realistic style, and have sometimes been compared to Edward Hoppers work in the mood that they set. A member of the post-war School of London painters.
Chagall was born in Russia as Marc Segal, he slightly altered the common spelling. His colorful, dreamlike paintings made him one of the most popular painters of the 20th Century. His early works are most admired, especially lovely are the paintings featuring him and his beloved and smart wife, Bella Rosenfeld. Probably no other Jewish artist has produced work that consistently relates to a Jewish background, but enjoys both great popular and critical acclaim.
Pissarro, known for most of her life as Orovida, was a British painter and etcher. She was part of a family of artists, including her father Lucien Pissarro and grandfather, the Impressionist Camille Pissarro.
Agam is a 20th Century Israeli abstract artist. Best know for compositions like Transparent rhythm in which the pattern changes depending on the angle at which you view it. A fountain/sculpture based on this concept stands on Dizengoff Square in Tel-Aviv.
Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema. He is also a jazz clarinetist who performs regularly at small venues in Manhattan.
Pissarro was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes he painted only a few still-lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France, but thereafter was based in Britain.
Agam is a 20th Century Israeli abstract artist. Best know for compositions like Transparent rhythm in which the pattern changes depending on the angle at which you view it. A fountain/sculpture based on this concept stands on Dizengoff Square in Tel-Aviv.
was a sculptor whose trademark is plaster human figures in various situations. Perhaps best known for the figures at the US Holocaust Museum.
is an American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1974 and has since lived and worked in New York. Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work in terra cotta sculpture, involving heavily perforated surfaces and intriguing forms.
is an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment, though he has made important installations as well as other significant contributions to art and architecture.
Kirby was the creator of Spider-Man, Captain America, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, among other Marvel creations. Stan Lee of Marvel is Jewish, as well.
Siskind was a Jewish American abstract expressionist photographer. In his biography he wrote that he began his foray into photography when he received a camera for a wedding gift and began taking pictures on his honeymoon. He quickly realized the artistic potential this offered. He worked in both New York City and Chicago.
As a cofounder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, A. Eugene Kohn has led many of the firm’s most complex and high-profile projects, developing the firm’s reputation as one of the world’s preeminent architectural practices.
