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3 unusual facts about Jacob Kramer


Jacob Kramer

His father, Max, was a painter who had studied at the St Petersburg Fine Art Academy under Ilya Repin, and had become a court painter to Baron Ginsburg.

Jacob Kramer was born in the small town of Klintsy in 1892, then part of the Russian Empire, into an artistic middle class Jewish family.

Writing to his close friend and fellow Arts Club member Herbert Read in 1918, Kramer stated that when he looked at an object he saw both its physical appearance and its spiritual manifestation.



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