Shretelakh [Little Gnomes]. No. 1. Kiev: All-Ukrainian Publishing House of the Central Executive Committee of Workers, Peasants and Army's Deputies, 1919. Large 8vo. 24 pp. Black-and-white illustrations. Original two-color decorated wrappers. Overall discoloring; wrappers reinforced; tears professionally closed; unobtrusive ink inscription on front wrapper by former owner. FIRST AND ONLY ISSUE of this rare Soviet Jewish children's magazine. The stories and poems are illustrated with lively, self consciously naive drawings fusing Jewish folk motifs and Cubist elements as in the early manners of Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky When the Bolsheviks officially overturned the centuries old anti-Semitic laws of the Tsarist regime, there was an outburst of free expression among Russian Jewish artists and writers. It also saw the brief flowering of a Yiddish children's literature in the USSR. A.G. Tyshler was a Ukrainian-born artist who studied in Alexandra Exter's studio in Kieve wher he met Viktor Shklovskii, Ilya Ehrenburg and Osip Mandelshtam. After moving to Moscow in 1921, he came in contact with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vera Inber, Petr Miturich, Sergei Esenin and other avant-garde artists and writers. He became a prominent stage designer for many theaters including the Jewish Theater in Moscow. In Kiev, I.M. Chaikov co-founded the Jewish socialist Kultur Lige with El Lissitzky Boris Aronson and others. He also illustrated children's books while overseeing a children's art studio. He studied sculpture at VKhUTEMAS where he worked within the Cubo-Futurist manner. By the early 1930s, he had embraced Social Realism and became famous for his heroic monuments for the glorious Soviet Union. His sculptures were also featured at both the 1937 Paris Exposition and the 1939 New York World's Fair. Not in Hellyer.
Shretelakh [Little Gnomes]. No. 1. Kiev: All-Ukrainian Publishing House of the Central Executive Committee of Workers, Peasants and Army's Deputies, 1919. Large 8vo. 24 pp. Black-and-white illustrations. Original two-color decorated wrappers. Overall discoloring; wrappers reinforced; tears professionally closed; unobtrusive ink inscription on front wrapper by former owner. FIRST AND ONLY ISSUE of this rare Soviet Jewish children's magazine. The stories and poems are illustrated with lively, self consciously naive drawings fusing Jewish folk motifs and Cubist elements as in the early manners of Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky When the Bolsheviks officially overturned the centuries old anti-Semitic laws of the Tsarist regime, there was an outburst of free expression among Russian Jewish artists and writers. It also saw the brief flowering of a Yiddish children's literature in the USSR. A.G. Tyshler was a Ukrainian-born artist who studied in Alexandra Exter's studio in Kieve wher he met Viktor Shklovskii, Ilya Ehrenburg and Osip Mandelshtam. After moving to Moscow in 1921, he came in contact with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vera Inber, Petr Miturich, Sergei Esenin and other avant-garde artists and writers. He became a prominent stage designer for many theaters including the Jewish Theater in Moscow. In Kiev, I.M. Chaikov co-founded the Jewish socialist Kultur Lige with El Lissitzky Boris Aronson and others. He also illustrated children's books while overseeing a children's art studio. He studied sculpture at VKhUTEMAS where he worked within the Cubo-Futurist manner. By the early 1930s, he had embraced Social Realism and became famous for his heroic monuments for the glorious Soviet Union. His sculptures were also featured at both the 1937 Paris Exposition and the 1939 New York World's Fair. Not in Hellyer.
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