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Img. ID: 13949

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 04.1994
The center of the composition is occupied with a semicircle of a rain-bow. A fallow-deer is lying on it. Its gracefull body is turned to the left, though the head with long corns is turned to the right. Both the head and the body are portrayed in profile. Two large flowers with two blue birds sitting on their tops are flanking the fallow-deer. The sun disk is shown over the head of the fallow-deer on the level of the sitting birds. All the details of the composition except the birds are painted with strontium yellow colour. The background is smoothly covered with green colour.
Name/Title
Akselrod, A design for a super-curtain for "Boitre the Robber" by Moyshe Kulbak | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
Settings
Unknown
Date
1936
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Historical Origin
Unknown
Community type
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Unknown
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Site
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School/Style
Period
Unknown
Period Detail
Documentation / Research project
Unknown
Material / Technique
The work is painted with gouache on thin rugged white paper.
Material Stucture
Material Decoration
Material Bonding
Material Inscription
Material Additions
Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
Density
Colors
Construction material
Measurements
Height
290mm.
Length
Width
Depth
Circumference
Thickness
Diameter
Weight
Axis
Panel Measurements
Condition
The lower and the upper right corners of the drawing are rumpled.
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
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Textual Content
Unknown |
Languages of inscription
Unknown
Shape / Form
Unknown
0
Ornamentation
Deer
Tree
Bird
Moon
Custom
Contents
Codicology
Scribes
Script
Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
Catchwords
Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
Coin Series
Coin Ruler
Coin Year
Denomination
Signature
Colophon
Scribal Notes
Watermark
Hallmark
Group
Group
Group
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Group
Trade Mark
Binding
Decoration Program
Summary and Remarks
"Boitre the Robber" is a play by Bielorussian jewish writer M.Kulbak. It was staged in Kiev GOSSET in 1936. A year later, after the arrest of M.Kulbak, the excluded from the repertoire of the theatre. The events of the play take place in the beginning of the 19th century. Boitre - a jewish Robin Hood, a defender of poor people, a noble avenger - restores a justice in jewish schtetls. The design of the theatre curtain is probably influenced by the motives of jewish tombstones -mazevot. (See, for example, D.Goberman "Jewish Tombstones", Moscow, 1993, ill.No.155.)
Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
1991 brought to Israel.
Main Surveys & Excavations
Bibliography
G.Fedorov "Meir Akslrod", Moscow, p.,19.
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Documenter
| M.Y. 6.1994
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