Aimlessly Wandering Women II

The theme of wandering is one with which Lasar Segall was intimately familiar. Born into the rigorously orthodox Jewish community of Vilnius, he left for Germany in 1906 in search of broader cultural horizons. During the First World War he was forced to leave Dresden—where he had been successfully studying and working—because he was a Russian citizen. In 1923, he emigrated from Germany to Brazil, where he exhibited actively for the next thirty years. Segall, who was also an avid traveler, seemed to find a certain amount of freedom in migration but, as the title of this print suggests, considerable loneliness as well.