Photograph of the Jews' Street in Vilnius in the winter of 1928 by photographer Moshe Raviv-Vorobeichic. Tel-Aviv, [ca. mid-20th century].
Captioned and dated by hand on verso: "der alte Judenhof. 1928 winter". Stamped on verso with the photographer's stamp: "Moshe Raviv, Tel Aviv".
Moshe Vorobeichic (Raviv; also Moi Ver) – photographer, painter and designer, a pioneer in the field of photomontage. He was born in Vilnius in 1904, studied at the university of Vilnius in the department of arts and architecture and in 1928 was accepted to the Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany, where he took courses with Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky and Josef Albers. In 1930 he continued his studies in Paris in the photography school Ecole de Photo Ciné. During the early 1930s, Vorobeichic was in charge of the visual documentation of "HeChalutz" operations in Poland until he immigrated to Palestine in 1934. In Palestine he worked for various Zionist institutes and the Histadrut Labor Federation as graphic designer and photographer, as well as independently. He was one of the first artists to settle in the artists' colony of Safed, where he passed away in 1995.
30X20.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to corners.