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.
Provenance
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Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 76.Be the first to know – Sign Up
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