Tadeusz Rychter (c. 1873 in
Lviv
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– 1943 in
Warsaw
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) was a Polish early twentieth-century artist best remembered for his watercolors of the
Holy Land.
[Watercolor "Figures in Jerusalem"](_blank)
by Rychter. ''"Hammersite" Fine Art Auctions.'' April 2011. ''See also:'
Jerusalem landscapes
by Rychter. ''Arcadja Auctions'' database, 2002–2010.
Rychter studied at the
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts
The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ''ASP''), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Pol ...
in
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...
,
[David Rap]
"The Lost Legacy,"
Haaretz English edition. Aug. 1, 2003. where he became the contributing artist to the legendary
Zielony Balonik
Zielony Balonik (literally, ''the Green Balloon'') was a popular literary cabaret founded in Kraków by the local poets, writers and artists during the final years of the Partitions of Poland. The venue was a gourmet restaurant of Apolinary J. Mic ...
art-and-literary cabaret. He married a fellow Cracovian artist
Bronisława Janowska, but left her for a German artist from an aristocratic family,
Anna May-Rychter, whom he met while in Munich. He was Catholic and could not obtain a divorce; they could not be legally wed, which may also explain their decision to settle in Palestine in 1920–1923.
[ While still in Europe, the two worked with ]Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as ...
on the construction of the first Goetheanum
The Goetheanum, located in Dornach, in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, is the world center for the anthroposophical movement.
The building was designed by Rudolf Steiner and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It includes two performa ...
in Switzerland and were members of the artist's group "Aenigma".[Rudolf Steiner, Michael Howard]
''Art as spiritual activity: Rudolf Steiner's contribution to the visual arts.''
''SteinerBooks'', 1998.
In Palestine, Rychter earned a living restoring art in old churches, and selling watercolor paintings of Christian holy sites to tourists.[ Many of his surviving paintings are in the possession of British families whose ancestors purchased them while stationed with the British administration in ]Mandate Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...
.[ In 1935 Tadeusz Rychter applied for membership in the Palestine Artists' Association but was turned down because of his religion. He returned to Poland at the time of the ]German invasion German invasion may refer to:
Pre-1900s
* German invasion of Hungary (1063)
World War I
* German invasion of Belgium (1914)
* German invasion of Luxembourg (1914)
World War II
* Invasion of Poland
* German invasion of Belgium (1940)
* G ...
in 1939, and disappeared in Warsaw in 1941. He died in 1943, murdered by the Nazis.[Tadeusz Rychter (short bio)](_blank)
at ''"Artlist.pl" Auctions'', 2007.
References
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1873 births
1943 deaths
Painters of the Holy Land pre-1948
Polish watercolourists
20th-century Polish painters
20th-century Polish male artists
Polish male painters
Polish civilians killed in World War II