Moshe Maurer 1891-1971
UFO in a Russian Village
oil on canvas
50 x 60
(lower left): M Maurer
1987-278
@Moshe Maurer estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
Despite Maurer’s bright palette and warm, naïve style of painting, the UFO, which has dragged the villagers from their homes into the snow, has a threatening aspect. It may symbolize...
Despite Maurer’s bright palette and warm, naïve style of painting, the UFO, which has dragged the villagers from their homes into the snow, has a threatening aspect. It may symbolize the pogroms (attacks on Jewish populations) or the specific threat to traditional, Jewish life posed by the rise of Nazism in Europe during the 1930s.
