Moï Ver

The Centre Pompidou in Paris (12 April–28 August) brings together more than 300 works by the Lithuanian-born photographer, graphic designer and painter Moshe Raviv-Vorobeichic, better-known as Moï Ver. Having trained as an artist in Vilnius in the early 1920s, Ver studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau under László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Paul Klee and Kandinsky; later, he was trained with Fernand Léger at the Académie Moderne and at the School of Photography and Film in Paris. On show at the Pompidou are examples of Ver’s documentary photographs, from the end of the 1920s to the start of the Second World War, of Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe as well as later graphic works produced in the ’50s, after he had settled in Israel under the name Moshe Raviv. Largely drawn from the Moï Ver Archive in Tel Aviv and from private collections across Europe, many of the works are on show to the public for the first time. Find out more the Pompidou’s website.

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Untitled (1930), Moï Ver. Photo: Centre Pompidou/Bertrand Prévost; © Yossi Raviv-Moi Ver Archive

Two shots by myself, Yport, Seine-Maritime on the beach (1931), Moï Ver. Photo: Centre Pompidou/Bertrand Prévost; © Yossi Raviv-Moi Ver Archive

Beards (1933–34), from Faces of Yesterday. Jews in Poland (1929-39), Moï Ver. Photo: Centre Pompidou/Bertrand Prévost; © Yossi Raviv-Moi Ver Archive