Alois Breyer, El Lissitzky, Frank Stella: Wooden Synagogues
The Museum’s rare collection of photographs and drawings by Alois Breyer (1885–1948) of East-European wooden synagogues destroyed in WWII is presented to the public for the first time. The exhibition stages a dialogue between more than a hundred works by Breyer, Frank Stella (b. 1936) and El Lissitzky (1890–1941), showing how geometric abstraction transforms the language, narrative and beauty of the synagogues into a modern and contemporary idiom.
El Lissitzky (1890 Russia – 1941, USSR), One small goat Papa bought for two zuzim, from the series Had Gadya, 1918-1919
Donated by Israel Pollak, Tel Aviv, with assistance from the British Friends of the Art Museums in Israel, 1979
The exhibition and catalogue were made possible through the support of the David Berg Foundation, New York, and with the assistance of the Austrian Cultural Forum Tel Aviv