1920 Original HERZL LITHOGRAPH Judaica JEWISH ART BOOK Bezalel BUDKO Woodcuts

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1920 Original HERZL LITHOGRAPH Judaica JEWISH ART BOOK Bezalel BUDKO Woodcuts:
$149.00

DESCRIPTION : Here for sale is a RARE nice copy of the Jewish book \"JÜDISCHE KÖPFE\" by GORELIK, Sch . This EXQUISITE Jewish ART book consists offour ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHSbyJOSEPH BUDKO of the BEZALEL School of ART in Eretz Israel ( Also refered to as Palestine ) . The book also consists of several BUDKO woodcuts being a MAGNIFICENTLY DESIGNED WOODCUT front cover and also WOODCUT VIGNETTES of the ALPHABETH . The ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS are printed on one face only of separate leaves , Originaly bound with the book as issued. The book waspublished byBerlin Verlag für Jüdische Kunst und Kultur Fritz Gurlitt 1920. First edition. 4 original lithographs, being portraits of Theodor Herzl, Marko Baruch, J.L.Perez and Spinoza. Other chapters are on Heinrich Graetz, Benjamin Disraeli, Georg Brandes, Ephraim Michaeli, Lewitan, Mendele, Scholem Alechem, Jakob Dienenson, Schalom Asch and A. Weiter. Excellent quality paper. Uncut margins. OriginalWOODCUT DESIGN HC. clothspine . 11.5 x 9.5 \". ( Around 30 x24 cm) . Around115 pp. Uncut margins . Good condition .Clean. Tightly bound. Very faint foxing on a few leaves . Tears in the original cloth spine. ( Please look at scan for actual AS IS images - Please note that the copy on this sale is a similar copy to the scanned one - Perhaps even in better condition - The inner condition is cleaner, Less foxing and stains , The grey cloth spine is professionaly redone , The cover slightly more stained , It is slightly different ) . Book will be sent protected inside a protective rigid envelope . AUTHENTICITY : ThisistheORIGINALvintage1920 FIRST EDITIONbook( Dated ) . NOT a reproduction or a reprint , AlltheLITHOGRAPHS are guaranteedoriginal as issued by the publisher.Theyhold alife long GUARANTEE fortheir AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal .SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered airmailis$ 22 . Book will be sent protected inside a protective rigid envelope . Handling within 3-5 days after payment. Estimated Int\'l duration around 14 days.

Josef Budko was born in Plonesk, Poland and studied inBerlin with the Jewish painter and Graphic designer, Hermann Struck. In 1933 heimmigrated to Israel with Mordecai Ardon and Yaacov Shtainheart. Two yearslater, with the opening of the “New Bezalel” school in Jerusalem, he became thehead of the institution, a position he held till his death in 1940. Hiswork includes carving for the Pesach Hagada, woodcarvings ilustrating biblicalevents, decorations for the books of Agnon, Bialik and numerous etchings andlithographies. This exhibition presents the series of woodcarvingscreated for the 50 th. Edition of Haim Nahman Bialik’s writings, published inBerlin in 1923. Other works exhibited, present the wide range of Jewish andZionist topics that Budko dealt with over his long carrier Joseph Budko Polish 1888-1940 Joseph Budko was amongst aninfluential group of graphic minded Jewish artists who embraced the revival ofthe woodcut, a medium which lent itself perfectly to express the views ofIsrael and Jewish culture in various lands.Born in Poland, Budko studied art inGermany under the instruction of Hermann Struck and the influence of JacobSteinhardt. Mixing his personal attitude with Jewish outlook; melding Jewishtradition and modern artistic approach, Budko soon developed his own powerfulstyle, influencing future great artists in turn—Marc Chagall being noexception. Budko has been credited with resurrecting the spirit of bookillustration by elevating it to modern design. Eventually moving to Israel,Joseph Budko became the head of the Betzalal Academy in Palestine when itre-opened in 1935. He remained in this position until his untimely death, in1940. The term Bezalel school describesa group of artists who worked in Israel in the late Ottoman and British Mandateperiods. It is named after the institution where they were employed, theBezalel Academy, predecessor of today’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, andhas 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 RoyalAcademy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, to make aliyah 1906 and set up an academy forJewish arts. All of the members of the school were Zionist immigrants fromEurope and the Middle East, with all the psychological and social upheaval thatthis implies. The school developed a distinctive style, in which artistsportrayed both Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by theEuropean jugendstil ( or art nouveau) movement, by symbolism, and bytraditional Persian and Syrian artistry. Like the British Arts and CraftsMovement, Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna, William Morris firm in England, andTiffany Studios in New York, the Bezalel School produced decorative art objectsin a wide range of media: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric. While theartists and designers were European-trained, the craftsmen who executed theworks were often members of the Yemenite community, which has a long traditionof craftsanship in precious metals, and began to make aliyah about 1880.Yemenite immigrants with their colorful traditional costumes were also frequentsubjects of Bezalel School artists.Leading members of the school were BorisSchatz, E.M. Lilien,Ya\'akov Stark, Meir Gur Arie, Ze\'ev Raban, Jacob Eisenberg,Jacob Steinhardt, and Hermann Struck.The artists produced not only paintingsand etchings, but objects that might be sold as Judiaca or souvenirs. In 1915,the New York Times praised the “Exquisite examples of filigree work, copperinlay, carving in ivory and in wood,” in a touring exhibit. In the metalworkMoorish patterns predominated, and the damascene work, in particular, showedboth artistic feeling and skill in execution . Bezalel Academy of Art and Design isIsrael\'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 andconstruction of the Tabernacle (Exodus 35:30).It is located on Mount Scopus inJerusalem and has 1,500 students registered in programs such as: Fine Arts,Architecture, Ceramic Design, Industrial Design, Jewelry, Photography, VisualCommunication, Animation, Film, and Art History & Theory. Bezalel offersBachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Bachelor ofDesign (B.Des.) degrees, a Master of Fine Arts in conjunction with HebrewUniversity, and two different Master of design (M.des) degree. The academy wasfounded in 1903 by Boris Schatz, and opened in 1906, but was cut off from itssupporters in Europe by World War I, and closed due to financial difficultiesin 1929. The academy was named \"Bezalel\" (Hebrew: \"in God\'sshadow\") as an illustration of God\'s creativity being channeled to a manof flesh and blood, providing the source of inspiration to Bezalel ben Uri inthe 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 developeda distinctive school (or style) of art, known as the Bezalel school, in whichartists portrayed both Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced bythe European jugendstil (art nouveau) and by traditional Persian and Syrianstyles.Like the Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna, William Morris firm in England,and Tiffany Studios in New York, the Bezalel School produced decorative artobjects in a wide range of media: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric.While the artists and designers were European-trained, the craftsmen whoexecuted the works were often members of the Yemenite community, which has along tradition of craftsanship in precious metals, and whose members had beenmaking aliyah in small groups at least form the beginning of the nineteenthcentury, forming a distinctive Yeminite community in Jerusalem. Silver andgoldsmithing, occupations forofferden to pious Muslims, had been traditionalJewish occupations in Yemen. Yemenite immigrants with their colorfultraditional costumes were also frequent subjects of Bezalel schoolartists.Leading artists of the school include Meir Gur Aryeh, Ze\'ev Raban,Boris Schatz, Jacob Eisenberg, Jacob Steinhardt, and Hermann Struck. The Schoolfolded because of economic difficulties. It was reopened as the New BezalelSchool for Arts and Crafts in 1935, attracting many of its teachers andstudents from Germany many of them from the Bauhaus school which had been shutdown by the Nazis. In 1969 it was converted into a state-supported institutionand took its current name. It completed its relocation to the current campus in1990.Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: תִאוַדָרהֶרְצֵל, Ti\'vadar Hertzel; Hungarian: Herzl Tivadar; May 2, 1860– July 3, 1904), born Benjamin Ze’evHerzl (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִיןזְאֵב הֶרְצֵל, also known in Hebrew as חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה,Khozeh HaMedinah, lit. \"Visionary of the State\") was anAustro-Hungarian journalist and writer. He is considered to have been thefather of modern political Zionism and in effect the founder of the State ofIsrael.writer, father of the Zionist movement, creator of the Jewish State. Hewas born in Budapest; his birthplace was located where nowadays the JewishMuseum can be found, in the Dohány Street (currently). He was educated in Reformedatmosphere (following the modern religious tendency’s characteristics ofHungarian Jews), he graduated from the Budapest Lutheran High School. While hisstudies, he was influenced by spirituality and intense national feeling aswell. In 1878, his family moved to Vienna where he was learning law andwriting. He became a journalist, and he started to work for the ’Neue FreiePresse’, with some liberal influential attitudes.The anti-Semitism appeared inhis life for the first time while his studies at the University of Vienna, buthis first real confronting happened in Paris, in connection with the so-calledDreyfus-lawsuit (a Jewish officer of the French Army was accused of treason in1894). Herzl himself was an eyewitness of the angry crowd’s reactions whiletheir waiting for the verdict, with exclamations like ’Death to Jews\'. As aresult, he created his drama in 1894 with the title ’The Ghetto’, dealing withtasks like if assimilation and conversion to Christianity were real solutionsor not. For the same result, he wrote a thesis with the title ’Der Judenstaat’(The Jewish State) in which he suggests Jews from all over the world to returnto Palestine, the ancestral homeland, from where they were expelled at thattime. Herzl believed that the main problem of the Jews is not individual butinternational. He emphasized that the Jewish people can appeal to other nationsonly if nobody consider them to be \"unusual\". He suggested to obtainsupport for creating a global fund, which would be owned by shareholders andwould work for the political implementation of this goal. This was the birth ofthe Zionist Organization. The first Zionist Congress was organized by TivadarHerzl in 1897, and later he became the president. In Herzl’s opinion, there ispower of these words, that \"if you will, no fairy tale,\" which becamethe motto of the Zionist movement. Before he died, the Turkish government hasreached to allow the Jews to settle Palestine, but this has than provokeddispleasure for the local Arab population. Herzl imagined the Jewish State as aneutral, secular and peace-loving country. In his mind, future of the JewishState was a model of a socially welfare state, which was an ideal for a modern,enlightened one; he wrote about his dreams in his novel, ’Ősújország’ in 1902.He died in 1904, Vienna because of his cardiac failure and pneumonia. He wasburied in Döbling, near to his father, and his mortal remains were transportedto Israel in 1949, and lastly he was buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.