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Boris Deutsch was born in Krasnogorka, Jewish shtetl in Latvia (at
that time - province Kurland of the Russian Empire) on June 4th 1892. He
began drawing at the age of five. When he was still a young boy, his
family settled in Riga (now Latvia), where he went on to attend Bloom
Academy of Art and Polytechnic School. At the age of 17 he came to
Berlin, where he attended the School of Applied Arts
(Kunstgewerbeschule) for a few months. Back in Riga, shortly thereafter,
he was drafted into the Russian tsarist army and sent off to serve (as a
private) in Kiev.
Soon after the outbreak of war, his troop was ordered to move to the
Caucasus. Deutsch could not whatsoever come to terms with prospect of
himself- a young Jewish man from distant Latvia with poor Russian skills
- being killed in this "someone else's" war, instead of becoming a
professional artist, what he always dreamt of. Therefore, he made a
spontaneous decision, which he immediately carried out. First, he forged
a pass that allowed him to leave the barracks, borrowed some money from
friends, and, having changed into civil clothes, took off. He proceeded
to send his mother a telegram, in which he asked her to meet him in
Vilna (present day Vilnius, Lithuania). Further, he took a train to
Vilna without carrying any identification and constantly at risk of
detention by military patrols. His mother accompanied him to Riga and
hid him there for some time, until she was able to procure false papers
for him. These documents allowed Deutsch transit to Harbin, China, where
he spent some time, until in 1916 he traveled (via Japan) to the US and
settled in Seattle.
He lived there until 1920 earning his bread with commissioned art
works. When his parents came to the US as well, the family moved to
Los-Angeles, and the artist went on to support himself with commercial
art and movie set designs. He also taught painting at the Otis Art
Institute in Los-Angeles. In the early 1930s, he was associated with the
Federal Project, sketching workers as they resettled onto farms.
During the late 1930s he received several mural commissions from the
WPA, including Hot Springs, New Mexico Post Office, Reedley, California
Post Office, and 11 murals in the Los-Angeles Terminal Annex Post
Office. He continued drawing, painting and printmaking for decades until
he died on January 16th 1978 in Los-Angeles.
Works of Boris Deutsch are housed in Carnegie Institute, National
Museum of American Art, Los-Angeles County Museum of Art, Scribal
Museum, Pomona College Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
San-Diego Museum of Art, etc.
Condition: good
Creation Year: 1960s
Measurements: UNFRAMED:18,8x13,7cm/7,4x5,4in
Object Type: Unframed mixed media
Style: Modern Art
Technique: mixed media on paper
Inscription: signed: Boris Deutsch
Creator: Boris Deutsch
Creator Dates: 1892 Krasnogorka-1978 Los-Angeles
Nationality: Russian / Jewish / Latvian / American
Themes:
RUSSIAN
LITHUANIAN
LATVIAN
BALTIC
JEWISH
AMERICAN
CALIFORNIAN
JUDAICA
MODERN ART
FEMALE PORTRAIT
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