Famous Jews Interactive
Jewish Fine Artists and Craftspeople
[188] Frida Kahlo -- Mexican artist famous for vivid, surrealist self-portraits. Married to Diego Rivera.
[89] Leonardo Da Vinci -- All around genius: Artist, inventor, scientist, etc. (evidence of Jewish mother)
[69] Charlotte Buresova -- Czech Jewish artist held in Terezin ghetto by the Nazis
[73] Yaakov Agam -- Influential Israeli modern artist
[77] Marc Chagall -- Painter, designer and graphic artist, 1887 - 1985
[41] Leo Haas -- Jewish artist who survived the Terezin ghetto and Mauthausen
[49] Isaak Levitan -- Most beloved Russian landscape painter
[48] Jozef Israels -- (1824-1911) Dutch genre painter; compared to Millet
[46] Modigliani -- The artist, the legend, now known to millions.
[34] Camille Pissarro -- 'Father of Impressionism', 1830 - 1903
[18] Malva Schaleck -- Artist who worked in Terezin before being deported to her death in Auschwitz
[22] Mark Rothko -- One of the world's most popular Abstract Expressionist painters.
[25] Josef Nassy -- Black expatriate artist, imprisoned by the Nazis
[20] Arthur Szyk -- lluminator of sacred texts
[19] Kitaj -- Painter, elected to the American Academy of Arts/Letters and the Royal Academy
[18] Peter Max -- Painter, his designs defined the sixties.
[16] Lasar Segall -- Famous German/Brazilian painter. In Brazil there's a museum with his name.
[15] Samuel Kolstein -- Luthier and bow maker to the stars
[15] Frank Gehry -- Pre-eminent architect, designer of Guggenheim Bilbao
[15] Louise Nevelson -- Outstanding sculptor with principles
[15] Albert Kahn -- Architect, had an astonishing career at the beginning of the 1900's
[15] David Olere -- an artist whose work testifies to the enormity of the Holocaust
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