Artist

Issachar Ber Ryback

1897–1935 · born in Kropyvnytskyi · died in Paris

Issachar Ber Ryback was born in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, to a Jewish family. He studied art in Kyiv and was part of a group that tried to create a modern Jewish art. In 1926 he moved to Paris, where he stayed until his death in 1935. He painted and drew Jewish village life.