Armin Stern: The Ari Mikve Safed 1933/German Slovakian Jewish Impressionism

Description: Armin Stern 1883, Galánta (near Bratislava, Austria-Hungary, today Slovakia) – 1944, New York, United States A Jewish Man in The Ari Mikve in Safed, 1933 RARE, Original Hand-Signed Oil on Wood - Dated 1933 Armin Stern created this rare painting during his trip to Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s. Artist Name: Armin Stern Title: A Jewish man in the Ari Mikve in Safed, 1933 Signature Description: Hand-signed and dated "Safed, 1933" lower left Technique: Oil on wood Image Size: 51 x 41 cm / 20.08" x 16.14" inch Frame: The painting is matted and framed Condition: Very Good condition Artist's Biography: Armin Stern (Slovakian - German, 1883-1944) Armin Stern was born in Galánta near Bratislava (Austria-Hungary) and from 1900 studied painting in his adopted hometown of Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Paris, which influenced him artistically. Stern made a name for himself with sociocritical and Old Testament themes as well as landscapes and portraits - a crossover between French Impressionism and German Expressionism. Numerous travels took him through Europe and the Middle East, where he captured land and people. He became a sought-after portrait painter and portrayed devout Jews as well as public figures from culture, science and politics such as Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein and Ben Gurion. Stern fled twice before the Nazi regime, which ostracized and seized his work, first in 1933 in his old home to Bratislava and in 1938, where he was already known by previous exhibitions. He died in New York, in 1944. Frankfurt, Jerusalem, New York: The Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, displays works by the Jewish painter Armin Stern, who fled the Nazis in 1933He portrayed Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann. He studied at the Frankfurt Städelschule, in Munich with Franz von Stuck and - like many of his fellow artists - also in Paris. But in the history of art writing Armin Stern (1883-1944) remained a stranger for a long time. Much of his work is still untraceable.Berliner Woche / January 11, 2018Images by Arnim Stern can be seen in the new exhibition at the Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin. The painter fell into oblivion after his early death and was only rediscovered 70 years later. His works will be shown for the first time in Berlin. They come from private collections and the family-owned estate.The Kunsthaus Dahlem presents a selection of oil paintings, etchings, watercolors, monotypes and drawings as part of the exhibition "Neue / Alte Heimat. R / emigration of artists after 1945 ". In contrast to the exile artists who returned to Germany, Stern did not experience the end of the Nazi regime and the Second World War. So, his return to the art world had denied him.Armin Stern (1883-1944), born as Herrmann Stern in Galánta near Bratislava (Slovakia) in Austria-Hungary, where he grew up. The family was Jewish Orthodox, Stern was already a Zionist in school age. He studied painting at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. From 1904 he also studied at the Munich Art Academy. In his last year he visited the painter class of Franz von Stuck, who also taught Wassily Kandinsky or Paul Klee. As a teenager, He wanted did not want to become businessman like his father but an artist. At 17, he moved to Frankfurt am Main, around 1900 in Germany a center of Jewish life with a dynamic cultural scene. At the Städelschule he studied painting with Wilhelm Amandus Beer. At the Frankfurter Kunstverein he met colleagues such as Jakob Nussbaum, ten years his senior, such as Ugi Battenberg, Alfred Oppenheim, Ottilie W. Roederstein, Alexander Soldenhoff and Siegfried Wohlfahrt. They met at Café Westend on Opernplatz, where Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer also frequented each other. At that time, Armin Stern already seemed to dominate what is today for artists: to network and to manage themselves. He traveled to artist colonies and visited various art centers in Europe. Stern, who studied the Talmud at the "Yeshiva", felt a deep connection to Jewish tradition all his life, which is reflected in the themes of his paintings. Without being fixed on a particular style, he experimented with the artistic means of the young modernism such as Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism and New Objectivity. In addition to socioracial and Old Testament themes, he painted still lifes, landscapes and scenes of the countries he traveled to. Portraits were very important among his works. He traveled through Western and Eastern Europe and was considered a frontier cross between French Impressionism and German Expressionism.Stern portrayed farmers and fishermen from Holland and Brittany, practicing Jews from Europe and Palestine, and personalities from culture, science and politics. Among other things, he painted Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein. His portraits convince by radiance and a strong aura.A second focus of Stern's were cityscapes, landscapes and seascapes, which were created especially when traveling. It was important to him to represent the people in their living environment. Issues such as poverty, old age and physical ailments have kept him busy throughout his life.In 1933, the Frankfurter Kunstverein banned him from a planned exhibition on German contemporary art because he was a Jew. The intensification of anti-Semitism led him to flee with his family in 1933, first to Bratislava, five years later, in 1938, they emigrated to the United States. The attempts to help the numerous relatives to leave failed. Almost all of Stern's family members were killed in extermination camps. His application for a visa for Palestine was denied there. Stern died of heart failure in exile in 1944 a few days before his naturalization and in the middle of preparing for an exhibition of a heart attack.Due to expulsion and seizure, many of Stern's works have disappeared. Above all, the early work is unknown, some paintings are only handed down through photographs. For the art historian Sabine Meister, research into the works and biographical data of the Jewish painter was detective work. An important base formed the reports of his granddaughter and the recorded memories of his daughter. Numerous images were destroyed by the Nazis or lost during the Second World War and the escape. Only a few works found in public and private collections, historical illustrations from the estate and contemporary press texts allow an approach to his entire work. "In the late appreciation and rehabilitation of outlawed artist is an essential and programmatic concern of the house," said the director of the Kunsthaus Dahlem, Dorothea Schöne. For the museum, which was built in 1942 as the studio of the Nazi state sculptor Arno Breker, such an encounter is a necessity for working up the history of the house. The exhibition is not only intended to honor Stern's work, it also deals with the extinction of biographies by National Socialism, which continues to be felt today. Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard), Bank Cheque. If you wish to send a personal cheque, please note that the item will not be shipped until the cheque clears. Shipping&Handling: All items are sent through registered mail or by E.M.S. Fast delivery service (up to 4-5 business days), depends on the weight and measures of the purchased item. You may add insurance for the item with an additional fee. Please e-mail us for other shipping methods. 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