The Art of Jacob Barosin

Photo: Paul
Photo: Paul
Collection ID

ART.001271

Type

Art

Date

1950s

Geography

New York United States

Language

N/A

Medium

Paint on Paper

Dimensions

30 × 20.19 in. (76.2 × 51.28 cm)

Exhibit Location

Not on View

This painting of Paul was inspired by Barosin’s reading of a Christian Bible while in hiding in a schoolhouse in Montméjean, France.

Jacob (Judey) Barosin (1906–2001) was a Jewish artist born in Riga, Russia (now Latvia), who fled to Berlin, Germany, shortly before World War I. He was forced to flee again to Paris, France, in 1933, after Hitler rose to power. Due to anti-Jewish laws established by the Nazis, Jacob and his wife, Sonia, spent the next four years running from the Gestapo. After the war, Jacob and Sonia immigrated to the United States, where Jacob made a living as a sketch artist for NBC-TV. He also illustrated the Jewish Family Bible, created a series on Jesus called the Life of Christ for the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and held numerous exhibitions in the United States and Israel. Collections of material related to Jacob Barosin’s life and work can be found at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society, and Museum of the Bible.

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