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Bidding Information
Lot #    11843
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 12:24:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Neun Holzschnitte zu Ausgewahlten Versen aus
Title (Hebrew)    dem Buche Jeschu ben Elieser ben Sirah
Author    [Woodcuts] Jacob Steinhardt, Artist
City    Berlin
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First and limited edition. 24 ff., 9 woodcuts, 276:180 mm., crisp unused copy. A near fine copy bound in the original boards with dustjacket. Signed in pencil by Jacob Steinhardt on final.
          
Detailed
Description		    Jacob Steinhardt (1887–1968), Israel painter and printmaker. He was born in Zerkow, Poland, and left home in 1906 to study in Berlin, first at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, and then under the engraver Hermann Struck. From 1909 he studied in Paris under Laurens and Matisse. He returned to Berlin in 1912 and, together with Ludwig Meidner and Richard Janthur, founded the Pathetiker Group, with whom he exhibited. He served as a soldier in Lithuania and Macedonia during World War I, and his on-the-spot drawings were exhibited in Berlin in 1917. In 1933 he left Germany to settle in Jerusalem. In 1949 he was appointed head of the graphic department of the Bezalel School of Art, of which he was director between 1953 and 1957. In 1955 he received the first international prize in graphic arts at the Sao Paulo Biennale, and in 1960 the Arta Liturgica Prize at the Venice Biennale. Steinhardt was an early disciple of German expressionism, and his early subject matter was almost exclusively religious and social. He made engravings and lithographs; in Jerusalem he devoted himself almost exclusively to woodcuts. At first he depicted Jerusalem scenes and inhabitants, but from 1950 he used biblical subjects from the Book of Jonah (1952), the Book of Ruth (1955), landscapes, and imaginary themes. While his woodcuts of the 1930s are characterized by sharp contrasts between black and white, his later work concentrated on rhythm, and color was often introduced.
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, Hebrew
  
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Kind of Judaica
Drawings:    Checked