Daniel Kabiljo (6 March 1894,
Sarajevo – 1944,
Jasenovac concentration camp) was a
Yugoslav Jewish Sephardi artist. His lithographs of Sephardi life were published in 1924 but the originals are lost.
His art was featured in a propaganda film made by the
Ustashe which also featured sculptor
Slavko Brill
Slavko Brill (27 December 1900 – January 1943) was a Croatian-Jewish sculptor and ceramics artist born in Nova Gradiška.
He graduated in 1926 at Art Academy in Zagreb. His artistic works included portraits, busts, and cemetery monuments.
Af ...
. The group of artists also included
Daniel Ozmo
Daniel Ozmo (14 March 1912 – 5 September 1942) was a Yugoslav Jewish painter and printmaker. He studied in Belgrade, where he became a member of the communist progressive youth movement.
His paintings, other than of Sephardi Jewish life, port ...
one of the younger generation of Sarajevo’s Sephardic artists.
He, along with other Sarajevo Jews, was captured and imprisoned by the Ustashe in 1941. He was transferred first to
Stara Gradiška and then to
Jasenovac, where he died in 1944.
Surviving paintings
Some of Kabiljo's surviving works are on public display:
*''An Old House,'' oil painting, 1930s.
National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Umjetnička galerija Bosne i Hercegovine'' / Умјетинчка галерија Босне и Херцеговине) is a national gallery of art in Bosnia an ...
,
Sarajevo:
*''Jewish Women in Sarajevo''
Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade*''The Old Sephardic Woman on The Market,'' oil, 1935, City Museum of Sarajevo
*''The Conversation,'' oil, 1930s, City Museum of Sarajevo
*''From the Outskirts of Sarajevo,'' oil on canvas, 1920s-1930s, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina
*''A Street in Sarajevo,'' colored linocut, 1920s-1930s, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina
*''A Street in Sarajevo,'' India ink on paper, 1920s-1930s, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Others are held in private collections:
*''A Street in Sarajevo'', colored linocut, 1937
*''Motifs from Sarajevo's Old Turkish Market'', the
Baščaršija, 1930s
See also
*
Bosnia and Herzegovina art#Art in Austro-Hungarian Period
References
External links
GalleryMirjam Rajner ''Between Local and Universal: Daniel Kabiljo, a Sephardi artist in Sarajevo on the Eve of the Holocaust'' pdf
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1894 births
1944 deaths
Artists from Sarajevo
People from the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yugoslav Jews
Yugoslav painters
People who died in Jasenovac concentration camp
Sephardi Jews who died in the Holocaust
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sephardi Jews