us-005578-irn520123-irn521480
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results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn520123-irn521480/acquisitions/1
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1946-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
title: Arthur Szyk lithograph
record resource extent: overall: Height: 9.940 inches (25.248 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
is or was included in: us-005578-irn520123
history: The lithograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Irvin Ungar.
scope and content: The multi-colored lithograph represents Arthur Szyk's conception of the entire history of the Republic of Poland. The Polish eagle, not wearing a crown because of the Soviet Union's domination of Poland in1946, fills the top center of the print. Portraits of famous Poles including Boleslaw I (King of Poland, d.1025), Nicolaus Copernicus, Frédéric Chopin, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Kazimierz Pulaski line the sides. The Coat of Arms of Warsaw is drawn at the bottom center above depictions of a Polish miner and a Polish peasant as well as the Coat of Arms of Pomerania. The Coat of Arms of Silesia is presented at the bottom left and right corners.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: Restrictions on use. Copyright belongs to Irvin Ungar, Historicana.
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn521480
history: Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was born to Jewish parents, Solomon and Eugenia Szyk in Łódź, Poland, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. He had his first public art exhibition at age 15, and then went to Paris, France, for formal art training at the Academie Julian. He visited Palestine in 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted into the Russian Army and served in World War I. He married Julia Liekerman in 1916, and they had a son, George, in 1917. In 1918, Poland regained independence, but continued to fight a series of regional wars to secure its boundaries. Between 1919 and 1920, during Poland's war against the Soviet Bolsheviks, Syzk served as a cavalry officer and artistic director of the Department of Propaganda for the Polish Army in Łódź. In 1921, he and his family moved to Paris where his daughter, Alexandra was born the following year. Szyk was well known for his illuminations and book illustrations, in a style reminiscent of Persian miniatures. He worked on several significant projects in France, including illustrating the Statute of Kalisz, the Haggadah, and a series of watercolors on the American Revolutionary War. The themes of his most admired works, democracy and Judaism, were already well established, earning him both fame and significant commissions. In 1934, Szyk traveled to the United States for exhibitions of his work and to receive the George Washington Bicentennial Medal, awarded by the US Congress. He resided in England from 1937-1940 to supervise the publication of the Haggadah. In 1939, following Germany's invasion of Poland, he focused on producing anti-Nazi editorial cartoons published in many Western newspapers and magazines. During the German occupation of Poland, his 70 year old mother, Eugenia, and her Polish companion were forced to live in the Łódź ghetto. In 1943, they were transported to Majdanek concentration camp and killed. In late 1940, Szyk immigrated to th…
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1946-01-01
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