Lot 205: Moshe Vorobeichic (Raviv) – Photograph of the "Jewish Street" in Vilnius

Photograph of the "Jewish Street" in Vilnius in 1928, by photographer Moshe Vorobeichic (Raviv). Stamped on verso with the photographer's stamp, "Moshe Raviv, Tel-Aviv", captioned and dated by hand. Moshe Vorobeichic (Raviv; born Moi Ver) - photographer, painter and designer, a pioneer in the field of photomontage. He was born in Vilnius in 1904, studied at the university of Vilnius in the department of arts and architecture and in 1928 was accepted to the Bauhaus school in Dasau, Germany, where he took courses with Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky and Josef Albers. In 1930 he continued his studies in Paris in the photography school Ecole de Photo Ciné. In the early 1930s Vorobeichic was in charge of the visual documentation of "HeChalutz" operations in Poland until he immigrated to Palestine in 1934. In Palestine he worked as a graphic designer and a photographer, independently, as well as for some of the Zionist institutes and the Histadrut Labor Federation. He was one of the first artists who settled in the artists' colony in Safed where he passed away in 1995. 19X30 cm. Good condition. Slight damage in the upper left corner.