Tadeusz Rychter (c. 1873 in

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– 1943 in

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) was a Polish early twentieth-century artist best remembered for his watercolors of the

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.Watercolor "Figures in Jerusalem"
by Rychter. ''"Hammersite" Fine Art Auctions.'' April 2011. ''See also:'
Jerusalem landscapes
by Rychter. ''Arcadja Auctions'' database, 2002–2010. Rychter studied at the

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,David Rap
"The Lost Legacy,"

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English edition. Aug. 1, 2003. where he became the contributing artist to the legendary

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art-and-literary cabaret. He married a fellow Cracovian artist

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, 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

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on the construction of the first

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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

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. 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 in 1939, and disappeared in Warsaw in 1941. He died in 1943, murdered by the Nazis.Tadeusz Rychter (short bio)
at ''"Artlist.pl" Auctions'', 2007.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rychter, Tadeusz 1873 births 1943 deaths Painters of pre-1948 Palestine Polish watercolourists 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish male painters Polish civilians killed in World War II