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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 dream 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: 1930
Measurements: UNFRAMED: 19.0 cm x 14.9 cm / 7.5" x 5.9" inches
Object Type: Unframed drawing
Style: Judaica
Technique: pencil on transparent paper, laid on mount
Inscription: monogrammed and dated: B.D.1930
Creator Dates: 1892 Krasnogorka-1978 Los-Angeles
Creator: Boris Deutsch
Nationality: Russian / Jewish / Latvian / American
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