Wolf Kibel by freda Kibel 1st edition limited edition no 516 of 750

Wolf kibel by freda kibel 1st edition limited edition no 516 of 750 a brief sketch of his life and work by freda kibel and a critical assessment of his work by neville dubow 50 text pages, 12 colour plates (including a self portrait of the artist as frontispiece), 42 black & white illustrations wolf kibel (16 december 1903 – 29 june 1938) was a south african painter and printmaker he was partly responsible for the introduction of expressionism to south africa his paintings and monotypes have earned him recognition as a sincere and gifted artist wolf kibel was born in grodzisk, a village near warsaw, the capital city of poland, on 16 december, 1903 at the end of the eighteenth century the country had lost the last remnants of its political independence and had been partitioned into three, kibel's native village falling within the area ruled by russia, who administered its part of poland with an iron hand since long before the partition of poland its jewish population had lived in ghettoes and had been denied many of the rights enjoyed by the gentile section of the community, a state of affairs which also held in russia from a mode of life otherwise intolerable the jews found some solace by drowning themselves in their ancient religious and cultural traditions kibel himself came of a family of singers, some of international renown his own father had actually been kidnapped by the grodzisk congregation on account of his fine voice, and was employed by the community in the dual capacities of cantor and shochet wolf himself was the third boy and fifth child of a family of eight he was a very beautiful child with long golden curls, blue eyes and finely cut features his brother has told me that as a youngster wolf looked 'like an angel' condition excellent hardcover published in 1968 by human & rousseau length 50 pages + 34 pages black & white illustrations collection in forest town or can be couriered at buyers expense