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Rynecki, Elizabeth.
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Rynecki, Moshe, 1881-1943.
Rynecki, Moshe, 1881-1943 -- Appreciation.
Jewish artists -- Poland -- Biography.
Art, Polish -- 20th century.
Jews in art.
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Rynecki, Elizabeth.
Rynecki, Moshe, 1881-1943.
Rynecki, Moshe, 1881-1943 -- Appreciation.
Jewish artists -- Poland -- Biography.
Art, Polish -- 20th century.
Jews in art.
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Chasing
portraits
: a
great-granddaughter
's
quest
for her
lost
art
legacy
/ Elizabeth Rynecki.
by
Rynecki, Elizabeth.
NAL, New American Library, c2016.
Call #:
700.92 R995ry
Subjects
Rynecki, Moshe, 1881-1943.
Rynecki, Moshe, 1881-1943 -- Appreciation.
Jewish artists -- Poland -- Biography.
Art
, Polish -- 20th century.
Jews in
art
.
ISBN:
9781101987667 (hardback)
1101987669 (hardback)
Edition:
1st. ed.
Description:
viii, 385 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-385).
Contents:
A Jewish girl should know -- The trouble with Moshe -- Paintings -- Defying Hitler -- Displaced -- Italy --
Legacy
-- Cultural assets--lost
art
-- A loan request -- Gifting Moshe's paintings -- Serendipity -- Toronto, Canada -- University of Toronto -- Schneid Archive -- Poland -- The Jewish Historical Institute -- A tour of POLIN -- Majdanek -- Kazimierz Dolny -- Playing ball -- Roadblocks -- A shared heritage -- Looking forward.
Summary:
The memoir of one woman'
s
emotional
quest
to find the
art
of her Polish-Jewish great-grandfather,
lost
during World War II. Moshe Rynecki'
s
body of work reached close to eight hundred paintings and sculptures before his life came to a tragic end. It was his
great-granddaughter
Elizabeth who sought to rediscover his
legacy
, setting upon a journey to seek out what had been
lost
but never forgotten.
I am uniquely situated to tell the
Chasing
Portraits
story. I grew up surrounded by my great-grandfather'
s
paintings. I studied his
art
and learned to discern his ethnographic and impressionistic documentation style of Polish-Jewish life from a young age. For more than fifteen years I have researched and written about Moshe's work to make the archival information, history, and narrative connections come alive. Over the past several years, there has been a lot of publicity about
lost
and looted
art
from the Nazi era. While much of the recent interest centers around the astronomical value of famous artworks both
lost
and found, there are much greater numbers of lesser known pieces that vanished during the war, and each has its own tale to tell.
Chasing
Portraits
seeks to tell one of those stories in order to share the rich history in the scenes my great-grandfather painted as well as what the paintings themselves represent as survivors.
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Biographies.
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