Kneeling Man Embracing a Woman
mid 20th century
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.4 × 7.7 cm (5 11/16 × 3 1/16 in.) sheet: 18.5 × 12.7 cm (7 5/16 × 5 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.1201
About the Artist
Bernard Reder
Bernard Reder (1897–1963), born in Czernowitz, Bukovina—then part of Austria-Hungary and a vibrant center of Jewish and Hasidic culture—was the son of a Jewish innkeeper. At age four, he began drawing, but World War I interrupted his youth when, at 17, he was conscripted into the Austrian army and served in the trenches. After the war, Reder enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, studying...