Alphabetical list of artists

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Issakar Ribak, painter, born 1897, Ukraine. 1921 moved to Berlin, 1926 to Paris. In 1913-1914 Ryback attended classes in Exter's private studio. In 1915, at the Kiev Spring Exhibition, he for the first time presented his paintings, most of them being inspired by Jewish topics but in a modernistic style. In 1916, Ryback, was commissioned to travel all over Ukrainian and Byelorussian small towns (stetln) and copy the paintings in wooden synagogues and carved gravestones on the Jewish cemeteries. This trip awoke Ryback's interest in Jewish folk art. In 1917, he participated in the Moscow Exhibition of Jewish painters and sculptors, and the critics assessed him as "one of the most brilliant and ingenious artists".

Education

1908 (age 11) he entered the Yelisavetgrad courses for scene painters.
1911, was admitted to the Kiev School of Arts, Faculty of Painting, and graduated in 1916.