Color Woodcut by Listed Artist Fred Rappaport

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A color woodcut by listed artist Fred Rappaport (1912 – 1989). The work, a woodcut print on paper, depicts a multitude of human figures in yarmulkes, at a synagogue celebrating Rosh Hashana. The work is marked in white ink, with ‘4/12’ to the lower left, and the artist’s signature, ‘F. Rappaport’ at lower right. The work is presented with a white mat under glass in a simple, narrow black metal frame. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1912, Rappaport, a Jewish Modernist painter and woodcut artist, was a well-known painter and printmaker. He began painting in his teenage years when he entered the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, between 1931-1935. In 1938, the artist immigrated with his family to the United States, where he attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (1942-1943) and the University of Illinois. The artist was passionate about art as therapy for mental patients, and in 1982, wrote the article entitled, Window on the Unconscious Drawings of Patients for the Medical and Health Annual, Encyclopedia Britannica. He was a teacher at the Chicago Jewish Community Center, Suburban Fine Arts Center in Highland Park, and was also the author of the book, ‘Good Bye Vienna’.

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16DEN016-113