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from Auction House Records.
Writing a Letter to the New Country
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  David Bekker was born in Vilna, Poland. He studied at the
Antokolsky Art School in Russia; the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem,
Palestine; and the Academy of Fine Arts in Denver.
His teachers in Bezalel were Boris Schatz and Abel Pann. During
the Depression, Bekker was a WPA artist who created images of human
suffering and painted murals in Illinois public buildings.
In 1932, he published a portfolio of woodcuts, Myths and Moods. His works are included in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Tel Aviv Museum.
In the book Art of Today: by J.Z. Jacobson, Bekker reveals his identity and his inspiration:
"As a descendant of the persecuted Jewish people, branded with a
yellow badge of humiliation and rendered impervious to the onslaughts
of an antagonistic world by a soul, which has never surrendered, I feel
impelled to give form in my work to pathos, sorrow, strife and
triumphant joy."
Source:
www.oakton.edu
Information submitted by the artist’s son, Alex Bekker
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