Jacob Steinhardt
Jacob Steinhardt (1887–1968) (Hebrew: יעקב שטיינהרדט) was a German-born Israeli painter and woodcut artist.
Biography
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Jacob Steinhardt was born in Zerkow, German Empire (now Żerków, Poland). He attended the School of Art in Berlin in 1906, then studied painting with Lovis Corinth and engraving with Hermann Struck in 1907. From 1908 to 1910 he lived in Paris, where he associated with Henri Matisse and Théophile Steinlen, and in 1911 he was in Italy. When World War I broke out, he enlisted in the German Army, and served on the Eastern Front in Poland and Lithuania, and then in Macedonia. After the war, he returned to Berlin, and in 1922 married Minni Gumpert. They immigrated to Palestine in 1933, after he was harassed by the German police, dominated by the Nazis who recently came to power.[1]
Steinhardt died in 1968. He is buried in Nahariya.[2]
Artistic career
[edit]Jacob Steinhardt worked mainly in woodcuts depicting biblical and Jewish subjects. He participated in the Berlin Secession and founded the Pathetiker Group.[3] He was a member of the Bezalel school group. In 1934, Steinhardt opened an art school in Jerusalem. In 1948, he became Chairman of the Graphics Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He served as director of the school in 1954–1957.[4]
Collections
[edit]The Jewish Museum Berlin houses the largest Steinhardt collection in the world, including numerous graphic artworks and unpublished documents donated by Josefa Bar-On Steinhardt, the artist's daughter. The museum owns paintings, several hundred print graphics, and a collection of books illustrated by the artist.[5] It is also possible to discover some of his work at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and at the Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel.
References
[edit]- ^ D. Flisiak, JAKOB STEINHARDT (1887-1968). Życie i działalność. Chrzan 2022, s. 35-52.
- ^ D. Flisiak, JAKOB STEINHARDT (1887-1968). Życie i działalność. Chrzan 2022, s. 60.
- ^ The Woodcut as a Social Communicator Archived 2011-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ D. Flisiak, JAKOB STEINHARDT (1887-1968). Życie i działalność. Chrzan 2022, s. 52-58.
- ^ Cabinet Exhibition at the Rafael Roth Learning Center of the Jewish Museum Berlin Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
External links
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- 1887 births
- 1968 deaths
- People from Jarocin County
- People from the Province of Posen
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli printmakers
- Jewish painters
- Academic staff of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- 20th-century Israeli painters
- German Jewish military personnel of World War I
- 20th-century printmakers