Original COPPER PLAQUE Bezalel BORIS SCHATZ Framed JEWISH SCRIBE Jewish JUDAICA

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Seller: judaica-bookstore ✉️ (2,805) 100%, Location: TEL AVIV, IL, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 285785622841 Original COPPER PLAQUE Bezalel BORIS SCHATZ Framed JEWISH SCRIBE Jewish JUDAICA. DESCRIPTION :  This EXQUISITE ORIGINAL Hebrew COPPER PLACQUE , Being "THE SCRIBE " of BORIS SCHATZ was produced  In 1972 , To celebrate and commemorate the issue of the ISRARELI POST STAMP -  "THE SCRIBE "  by the Israel post. The PLAQUE was created from the ORIGINAL DIE of BORIS SCHATZ with the permision of BEZALEL SCHATZ.  For sale is the ORIGINAL COPPER PLAQUE combined with an ARTISTIC DISPLAY which includes also the STAMP and an EXPLANATORY LEAVE. The size of the FRAMED OBJECT is around 7 x 9". The plaque itself is around 2 x 3". Frame & Glass.    ( Please look at scan for actual AS IS  images ) . W ill be sent protected inside a protective rigid packaging . PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal & All credit cards. SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered airmail is $ 35 . Will be sent protected inside a protective rigid packaging . Handling around 5-10 days after payment.  Boris Schatz (Kaunas, Russian Empire, 1867 – Denver, Colorado, USA, 1932) was a Russian-born Jewish artist and sculptor, who founded what is now known as the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.Schatz's father, a teacher in a cheder (a religious school), sent him to study in a yeshiva in Vilnius, Lithuania, but Schatz left the yeshiva a short time later and cut all ties with his family so that he could study painting and sculpture in the in Vilnius, 1882–1887, and Warsaw, Poland, 1888–1889. In 1889, he moved to Paris (there until 1895) so that he could study at the Académie Cormon and with some of the noted artists there, including Mark Antokolski.In 1895, Schatz accepted an invitation from Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to become the official court sculptor and to establish that country's Royal Academy of Art. In 1900, he received a gold medal for his statue, Bust of an Old Woman.Three years later, in 1903, he met Theodor Herzl and became an ardent Zionist. At the Fifth Zionist Congress of 1901, he proposed the idea of creating a Jewish school for crafts and the arts. In 1906 he founded an art center in Jerusalem, which was later named "Bezalel" after Bezalel Ben Uri, the biblical artisan who designed the Tabernacle and its ritual objects. In the following years, Schatz organized exhibitions of his students' work in Europe and the United States; they were the first international exhibitions of Jewish artists from Palestine.Schatz, known to be fascinating, tempestuous, and visionary, wrote in his will: "To my teachers and assistants at Bezalel I give my final thanks for their hard work in the name of the Bezalel ideal. Moreover, I beg forgiveness from you for the great precision that I sometimes demanded of you and that perhaps caused some resentment ... The trouble was that Bezalel was founded before its time, and the Zionists were not yet capable of understanding it." Schatz's will was publicized for the first time in 2005.Due to Bezalel's financial difficulties, it was closed in 1929. While fundraising in the USA for the school, Schatz died. His body was brought back to Jerusalem and buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. However, the institution was reopened posthumously, in 1935, as the New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts.The artists in the Schatz family abounded. There was Boris himself, his daughter Zahara Schatz (1916–1999), son Bezalel Schatz (1912–1978), nicknamed Lilik, and Bezalel's wife Louise (1915–1997). Testament is the 1955 Israeli Prize for Art to Zahara in recognition of the whole Schatz family.The themes for most of Boris Schatz's artwork are based on the Bible and represent the rebirth of the Jewish people. The school he founded turned its backs on the founder/father's predilection for Romantic Classicism and his development of a Jewish Eretz-Israel style. Bezalel Schatz became successful, lived in California in the 1940s, was a brother-in-law of Henry Miller for a time and together published in a limited edition (400 copies) the album Into the night life. Bezalel Schatz returned to Israel in 1951 and his sister Zahara returned to Israel in 1979 after many years of fruitfull artisitc work and during which she exhibited in various international instulments and among them the MOMA where shed was also awarded the MOMA prize.Prizes1898 silver medal in Science and Art, Sofia, Bulgaria 1900 gold medal for Bust of an Old Woman 1900 silver medal at Exposition Internationale, Paris 1904 silver medal at 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Publications by Boris SchatzOn Art, Artists and their Critics (in Hebrew), 1924.The Rebuilt Jerusalem: The Rebuilt Reality (in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Bezalel Academy, 1924.ReferencesSchatz, Boris (1925). Boris Schatz His Life & Work a Monograph, Jerusalem: B'nai Bezalel. ISBN 1-135-29826-2. J. Klausner (1927). Boris Schatz : 31 oil paintings (in English and Hebrew), Jerusalem, [n.p.].Nurit Shilo-Cohen, ed. (1983). "Betsal'el" shel Shats, 1906-1929 / Bezalel, 1906-1929, translated from Hebrew into English by Esther Rosalind Cohen, Jerusalem: Israel Museum.Yigal Zalmona (1985). Boris Schatz (in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House Ltd.Nurit Shilo Cohen (1994). "The 'Hebrew Style' of Bezalel, 1906–1929", Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, vol. 20, pp. 140–163.Dana Gilerman (5 January 2006). "Prof. Schatz's wayward children," Haaretz newspaper.Meir Ronnen (20 July 2006). "The last Schatz," The Jerusalem Post. ********** Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel's national school of art. It is named after the Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri (Hebrew: ), who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle (Exodus 35:30).It is located on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem and has 1,500 students registered in programs such as: Fine Arts, Architecture, Ceramic Design, Industrial Design, Jewelry, Photography, Visual Communication, Animation, Film, and Art History & Theory. Bezalel offers Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Bachelor of Design (B.Des.) degrees, a Master of Fine Arts in conjunction with Hebrew University, and two different Master of design (M.des) degree. The academy was founded in 1903 by Boris Schatz, and opened in 1906, but was cut off from its supporters in Europe by World War I, and closed due to financial difficulties in 1929. The academy was named "Bezalel" (Hebrew: "in God's shadow") as an illustration of God's creativity being channeled to a man of flesh and blood, providing the source of inspiration to Bezalel ben Uri in the construction of the holy ark.Many early Zionists, including Theodor Herzl, felt that Israel needed to have a national style of art combining Jewish, Middle Eastern, and European traditions. The teachers at the academy developed a distinctive school (or style) of art, known as the Bezalel school, in which artists portrayed both Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by the European jugendstil (art nouveau) and by traditional Persian and Syrian styles.Like the Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna, William Morris firm in England, and Tiffany Studios in New York, the Bezalel School produced decorative art objects in a wide range of media: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric. While the artists and designers were European-trained, the craftsmen who executed the works were often members of the Yemenite community, which has a long tradition of craftsanship in precious metals, and whose members had been making aliyah in small groups at least form the beginning of the nineteenth century, forming a distinctive Yeminite community in Jerusalem. Silver and goldsmithing, occupations forbidden to pious Muslims, had been traditional Jewish occupations in Yemen. Yemenite immigrants with their colorful traditional costumes were also frequent subjects of Bezalel school artists.Leading artists of the school include Meir Gur Aryeh, Ze'ev Raban, Boris Schatz, Jacob Eisenberg, Jacob Steinhardt, and Hermann Struck. The School folded because of economic difficulties. It was reopened as the New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts in 1935, attracting many of its teachers and students from Germany many of them from the Bauhaus school which had been shut down by the Nazis. In 1969 it was converted into a state-supported institution and took its current name. It completed its relocation to the current campus in 1990. ********** 1903 Professor Boris Schatz, one of the founders of the Royal Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria, interests Theodor Herzl in his proposal to establish a school of arts and crafts in the Land of Israel. 1905 The Seventh Zionist Congress in Basel decides to establish the Bezalel School of Art. 1906 Professor Schatz establishes the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts on Ethiopia Street in Jerusalem. Its goals are: “To train people in Jerusalem in crafts, consolidate original Jewish art and support Jewish artists, and to find visual expression for the much yearned national and spiritual independence that seeks to create a synthesis between European artistic traditions and the Jewish design tradition of Eastern Europe, and to integrate it with the local culture of the Land of Israel.” 1908 Bezalel moves to its new buildings on what is today Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanagid Street. New departments are opened and the school expands its scope of activities. 1914 Bezalel is a huge success until World War I cuts it off from its executive committee in Berlin, and from its patrons and supporters in Europe. This is the year in which the institution is forced to contend with political, financial and management difficulties.1917 Bezalel is closed down before the British enter Jerusalem. The Turks decide to deport anyone they suspect might serve as a fifth column and accordingly, exile Schatz to Damascus (and later to Tiberias and Safed). The Bezalel school finds itself in a serious state of crisis until General Allenby enters Jerusalem in late 1917.1918-1919 Schatz returns from exile and Bezalel is reopened. 1929 The Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts is temporarily closed down due to financial difficulties. Schatz goes abroad to raise funds for the school. 1932 Schatz dies in the United States while on tour with a traveling exhibition of works by Bezalel’s artists. 1935 The committee in Berlin reopens the New Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts now headed by renowned Berlin print artist Josef Budko. Many of the teachers are from Germany and are strongly influenced by the Bauhaus movement. The emphasis in Bezalel is placed on the study of typography and graphic and practical arts as an expression of the needs and socio-economic development of those years. 1940 Budko dies and Max Bronstein – otherwise known as artist Mordechai Ardon – is appointed in his place, a product of the Bauhaus school who taught in Johannes Itten’s art school. World War II brings serious difficulties, putting the school’s existence at risk. 1946 WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization) takes Bezalel under its wing and agrees to provide 50 percent of its budget. 1947 After World War II ends, the new Bezalel receives previously unavailable materials, such as natural linen. Many new students enroll in the school after the war, and for the first time, the number of students crosses the 100 mark, reaching 103. Among the new students are several survivors of the concentration camps in Europe. 1948 With the end of the War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel, the school’s integration into the national cause is viewed as an important contribution to the fledgling state. The teaching of arts and crafts as an academic subject begins to be held in far greater regard. The new Bezalel views itself as duty-bound to expand the teaching of the fine arts in Israel and to become Israel’s premier academy of arts. 1952 Ardon leaves Bezalel, and sculptor Zeev Ben-Zvi is appointed to succeed him. The government of Israel, aware of Bezalel’s historic importance and unique role, begins to participate in its funding. After a year, Ben-Zvi is succeeded by Yaakov Steinhardt, who is in turn followed by Yerahmiel Schechter, Yitzhak Aschheim and Felix Darnell. 1955 In early 1955, the “New Bezalel” is declared an “Academy of Art.” The student body grows to over 200 and the building is enlarged. 1958 The Bezalel Academy of Art is awarded the Israel Prize on the occasion of Israel’s tenth Independence Day. 1965 Dan Hofner is appointed to head Bezalel and works intensively to change the school’s legal, financial and academic status. This is also the year when Bezalel’s departmental structure begins to consolidate into its present form. 1966The Department of Fine Arts is established. 1968 The Ministerial Committee for Economic Affairs decides to turn Bezalel into a government company. The Minister of Education and Culture and the Finance Minister appoint the members of Bezalel’s Board of Directors. 1969 The Minister of Education and Culture appoints a committee headed by Professor Hanani of the Technion. This committee recommends that the Council for Higher Education “make an effort to bring the Bezalel school up to the level of an institution of higher education”. The Council for Higher Education adopts the committee’s recommendations, appoints a selection and curriculum committee headed by Professor Danziger, and the name of the school is changed to “Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design”. ********* The term Bezalel school describes a group of artists who worked in Israel in the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods. It is named after the institution where they were employed, the Bezalel Academy, predecessor of today’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and has been described as "a fusion of ‘oriental' art and Jugendstil." The Academy was led by Boris Schatz, who left his position as head of the Royal Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, to make aliyah 1906 and set up an academy for Jewish arts. All of the members of the school were Zionist immigrants from Europe and the Middle East, with all the psychological and social upheaval that this implies. The school developed a distinctive style, in which artists portrayed both Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by the European jugendstil ( or art nouveau) movement, by symbolism, and by traditional Persian and Syrian artistry. Like the British Arts and Crafts Movement, Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna, William Morris firm in England, and Tiffany Studios in New York, the Bezalel School produced decorative art objects in a wide range of media: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric. While the artists and designers were European-trained, the craftsmen who executed the works were often members of the Yemenite community, which has a long tradition of craftsanship in precious metals, and began to make aliyah about 1880. Yemenite immigrants with their colorful traditional costumes were also frequent subjects of Bezalel School artists.Leading members of the school were Boris Schatz, E.M. Lilien,Ya'akov Stark, Meir Gur Arie, Ze'ev Raban, Jacob Eisenberg, Jacob Steinhardt, and Hermann Struck.The artists produced not only paintings and etchings, but objects that might be sold as Judiaca or souvenirs. In 1915, the New York Times praised the “Exquisite examples of filigree work, copper inlay, carving in ivory and in wood,” in a touring exhibit. In the metalwork Moorish patterns predominated, and the damascene work, in particular, showed both artistic feeling and skill in execution   meirjune 2645
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