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Old Jerusalem By Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968)

Jacob Steinhardt was born in Germany. At the age of nine, he was sent to school in Berlin, where he earned a scholarship when his artistic talent was discovered. In 1906, Steinhardt enrolled at the Berlin Museum of Art and Craft. A year later, however, the young painter joined the studio of Louis Corinth, who was more progressive than the teachers in the academic institutions. Subsequently, during a short visit to Paris, Steinhardt met Matisse, with whom he worked and studied and who influenced him considerably. In 1912, he founded the "pathetic group," one of the offshoots of the German expressionist movement. In the course of his military service in 1914, Steinhardt was posted to Lithuania. For the first time, he came in contact with a Jewish community that had a deep religious consciousness. The meeting changed Steinhardt's world completely, and he developed a strong attraction to everything connected with Jewish tradition. He portrayed the Jewish world he had found in Lithuania many times thereafter in his drawings.

Steinhardt visited Eretz Israel briefly in 1925, and settled there in 1933, making Jerusalem his home. As a teacher of graphics and later director of the Bezalel Art School, Steinhardt left his mark on a whole generation of Israeli artists.

Made for S. Shalom's poem, "Jerusalem, Wrapped in Ages," the work reproduced - Old Jerusalem - is a woodcut, an art form in which Steinhardt found his most personal artistic language. What stands out most in his woodcuts is not the objective description of the landscape, but rather the forceful expression given to his emotional understanding of the subject. Steinhardt exhibited all over the world; representing the State of Israel, his works received first prize in the graphics section at the Sao Paulo Biennale of 1955.

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...wrzucam, bo ladne...


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