Sentences with phrase «polish synagogues»

The book featured beautiful photographs of Polish synagogues that were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.

Inspired by the elaborately constructed Polish synagogues that were largely destroyed during World War II, the works in this series are made of wood, not canvas; their intermittent stripes are indented or popped forward, a device that Mr. Stella has applied liberally in his architectural designs, none of which have been built.

Stella's 1970 --- 73 «Polish Village» series was inspired by a documentary photos and architectural drawings of Polish synagogues that had been destroyed by Nazis during World War II.

Made before Had Gadya, his Polish Village (1971 — 3) series is a group of more than 100 works focusing on the destruction of Polish synagogues by the Nazi Party.

The earliest work on view in the gallery was from his Polish synagogue series.

Stella may be inspired by the exotic shapes and forms of the Polish synagogue but he is using this as a jumping off point to build his own kind of painting once again unapologetically in his terms, his own bold spirit.

Stella derived his inspiration for this series from a book of images detailing the carpentry of Polish synagogue construction prior to the Nazi Holocaust.

Not exact matches

Except for the Portuguese synagogue, the buildings look un-Antwerpishly drab, catering to four bourses, several major companies and many more smaller operations that buy and sell stones and / or cut and polish them, as well as businesses selling tools of the trade or offering services like laser inscription removal.

Turkish fortress, Polish church with an attached minaret, Armenian market district, several Orthodox and Catholic churches and a couple of synagogues.

Warsaw, Poland, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Frank Stella and Synagogues of Historic Poland, February 19 — June 20, 2016

Stella's first relief paintings, «Polish Villages,» take their titles from the sites of destroyed synagogues.

The exhibition will follow Stella's sources of inspiration, i.e. pre-war photographs and architectural drawings of synagogues created as part of the inventory conducted by the Warsaw University of Technology's Polish Architecture Unit, with which the Piechotkas closely cooperated.

In the early 1970s, fascinated by the beauty of Jewish synagogues, Stella began working on the Polish Village series.

Frank Stella's Polish village series draws on images of Wooden synagogues published by Maria and Kazimierz Piechotkain in their 1957 book, Wooden synagogues.

The exhibition featured, for the first time, Stella's reliefs from the «Polish Village» series, set beside the prewar photographs and drawings of the wooden synagogues that inspired them.

Each work, (pictured above) is named after a Polish town where one of the destroyed wooden synagogues was located.

In the summer of 1970, a lengthy hospital stay and a gift from architect Richard Meier — a book entitled Wooden Synagogues — provided Frank Stella with inspiration for his Polish Village series of works.

«Frank Stella and the Synagogues of Historic Poland» opens Friday at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and will run through June 20.

He embarked on that project after he was inspired by a 1959 book by Polish architects Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka entitled «Wooden Synagogues.»

Frank Stella, whose megasurvey at the Whitney Museum of American Art closed in February, is represented by two cardboard constructions from his «Polish Village» series, inspired by traditional wooden synagogues.