Rabbi Frederick Solomon Abstract Pastel Drawing, Early-Mid 20th Century

Item Details

Rabbi Frederick Solomon (German/American, 1899-1980)
Untitled, early-mid 20th century
Four pastel drawings on paper
Unsigned

‘Rabbi Frederick Solomon (formerly Solomonski) was born in Berlin, Germany. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving was torched by the Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he fled Germany with his wife Margot and escaped to England. Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, and Eugene Spiro, and German Expressionist Willy Jaeckel. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Gallery, London, where he was curator from 1943-1946. In 1954, Solomon left England to take up a position as rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport PA. In 1957 he was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in Havana, Cuba. Solomon was active in the Jewish Progressive movement during the 1950s. He left Cuba in 1960 and relocated to Laconia NH, where he served as rabbi at Temple B’nai Israel until 1963. In 1963 he opened the New English Gallery and Studio in Rochester NH and served as the chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Nathaniel Hawthorne College, Atrim, NH.’ – University of New Hampshire, Special Collections Library, Guide to the Rabbi Frederick Solomon Papers, 1927-1977, 2014

Condition

- wear to edges of papers; toning to papers; creasing to corners of papers; slight smudging of images due to excess pigment.

Dimensions

- measures largest paper.

Item #

ITMG879713