Moshe Rynecki Mrynecki - Jewish Life in Poland: The Art of Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943)

Jewish Life in Poland Reader, 1930, India Ink on Paper. 35 x 51 cm. The Art of Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943) Copyright 2005 Elizabeth Rynecki. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author. Note for Librarians: A cataloguing record for this book is available from Library and Archives Canada at www.collectionscanada.ca/amicus/index-e.html ISBN 1-4120-7739-7 ISBN: 978-1-4907-5493-2 (ebook) Offices in Canada, USA, Ireland and UK This book was published on-demand in cooperation with Trafford Publishing.

On-demand publishing is a unique process and service of making a book available for retail sale to the public taking advantage of on-demand manufacturing and Internet marketing. On-demand publishing includes promotions, retail sales, manufacturing, order fulfilment, accounting and collecting royalties on behalf of the author. In the Study, undated. Oil on Parchment. 25.8 x 43 cm. Museum Holdings Refugees, 9/25/1939.

Watercolor Sketch. 42 x 57cm. Collection of Yad Vashem. This painting is included in the Yad Vashem gallery, dedicated to the fate of Jews in Western Europe. One of the rooms, Between Walls and Fences: Trie Ghettos, displays the art that survived life in the ghetto. The painting Refugees, is included in that display.

The work can be viewed in person at the museum in Jerusalem, or online at the Between Walls and Pences: The Ghettos, gallery. The Gift of Bread, 1919 Oil on Parchment. Pramed-86.995 x 31.75 cm. Collection of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, Gift of George Rynecki. The National Museum in Krakow has at least 22 paintings.

In a 1989 catalog titled, Zyd zi-Polscy. Muzeum Nardowe W Krakowe. Czerwiec-Sierpien 1989 Wystawa Pod Protektoratem Ministra Kultury I Sztuki. Aleksandra Krawczuka, the catalog lists 22 of Moshe Ryneckis works. Introduction Moshe Rynecki used his paintbrush and palette to document and chronicle the life of his community-the Jewish people of Warsaw, Poland. Some artists, however, do more than simply document the subjects that they see and watch-they use the canvas to reveal something new-to show us that which we did not see at first, that which we might not consider if we had observed the subject ourselves.

While some might have seen a group of men sitting at a table studying the Talmud, Rynecki reveals the Rabbi gesticulating as he talks, ne shows the mens spines bent from spending so much time studying, he shows the tallit wrapped across the shoulders of those who have put their heads down for a brief rest, and he makes visible the light that gently streams into the darkened room. Ryneckis drive and ambition to paint came early in life and it came from within. When he was five years old he used chalk and crude brushes to paint on the walls and floors of his parents home. As he grew older, he always carried a sketchbook with him so that he could quickly draw that which caught his attention-people, their expressions, their hands. While Rynecki spent much of his life painting the Jewish community, he also witnessed a great deal of change to his country, from the almost constant political turmoil that characterized Polands brief independence between the World Wars, to the onset of Soviet aggression, and Nazi brutality at the start of the Second World War. Rynecki, much to his sons dismay, willingly lived inside the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto.

While his son warned him that the Nazi forces were not to be trusted, he only said, if you are right my son, then let me go where my brothers and sisters go. And if its death,so be it. Ultimately, Rynecki was deported to the Majaanek concentration camp where he perished. Although the Holocaust broughtgreat loss and ultimately a tragic end to Moshe Rynecki, the goal of this book is to celebrate his life and his work. To learn more about Moshe Rynecki and to see more of his paintings, please visit The Moshe Rynecki Virtual Museum at www.rynecki.org To learn more about the Rynecki family, you may also want to read the memoir written by his son, George J. Rynecki, Surviving Hitler in Poland: One Jews Story.

Elizabeth Rynecki (Moshe Ryneckis great-granddaughter) 1 October 2005 On the cover: Krasinski Park, 1930. Oil on Cardboard. 33.5 x 49 cm. Self-Portrait, 1936. China Ink and Wash. 31.5 x 48.8 cm Bride and Self-Portrait, 1918.

Watercolor and Pencil. 33 x 88 cm. Paula Rynecki, 1929. Oil on Cardboard. 41 x 63 cm. 32.1 x + 48.2 cm. Synagogue Interior, 1930. Synagogue Interior, 1930.

Oil on Parchment. 34.5x 49.8 cm. Smhat Torah, circa 1920. Oil on Cardboard. 33.5 x +46.3 cm. Oil. 32 x 52 cm. The Reader, undated. The Reader, undated.

Oil on Board. 23 x 31 cm. The Student, circa 1920. Watercolor and crayon. 33 x49.5 cm. Waterolor. 32 x 26 cm. Sheading the News, undated. Sheading the News, undated.

Watercolor. 34x42 cm. The Wedding (The First Dance), 1919. Oil on Parchment. 32.2 x 87.4 cm. The Divorce (The Get), 1920.

Watercolor. 35.3 x 56.5 cm