BEZALEL Judaica ART BOOK Boris SCHATZ Illust PLAQUES Jewish JERUSALEM Israel VR

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BEZALEL Judaica ART BOOK Boris SCHATZ Illust PLAQUES Jewish JERUSALEM Israel VR:
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DESCRIPTION : Here for sale is a MOST ATTRACTIVE photographed BOOK-CATALOGUE regarding the works of BORIS SCHATZ , The legendary founder of the BEZALEL school of ART. Published in 1985. OUT OF PRINT and greatly sought after. With Hebrew text and ENGLISH front page , This magnificent book consists of 40 ILLUSTRATED PLATES depicting the best of SCHATZ ART , Mainly his JEWISH - JUDAICAPLAQUES . HC . Beautifuly illustrated DJ. Around 5\" x 7\" . Around 100pp. PRISTINE condition. ( Please look at scan for actual AS IS images ) .Book will be sent inside a protective envelope .

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BorisSchatz (Kaunas, Russian Empire, 1867 – Denver, Colorado, USA, 1932) was aRussian-born Jewish artist and sculptor, who founded what is now known as theBezalel 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, butSchatz left the yeshiva a short time later and cut all ties with his family sothat he could study painting and sculpture in the in Vilnius, 1882–1887, andWarsaw, Poland, 1888–1889. In 1889, he moved to Paris (there until 1895) sothat he could study at the Académie Cormon and with some of the noted artiststhere, including Mark Antokolski.In 1895, Schatz accepted an invitation fromPrince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to become the official court sculptor and toestablish that country\'s Royal Academy of Art. In 1900, he received a goldmedal 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 ZionistCongress of 1901, he proposed the idea of creating a Jewish school for craftsand the arts. In 1906 he founded an art center in Jerusalem, which was laternamed \"Bezalel\" after Bezalel Ben Uri, the biblical artisan whodesigned the Tabernacle and its ritual objects. In the following years, Schatzorganized exhibitions of his students\' work in Europe and the United States;they were the first international exhibitions of Jewish artists fromPalestine.Schatz, known to be fascinating, tempestuous, and visionary, wrote inhis will: \"To my teachers and assistants at Bezalel I give my final thanksfor their hard work in the name of the Bezalel ideal. Moreover, I begforgiveness from you for the great precision that I sometimes demanded of youand that perhaps caused some resentment ... The trouble was that Bezalel was foundedbefore its time, and the Zionists were not yet capable of understandingit.\" Schatz\'s will was publicized for the first time in 2005.Due toBezalel\'s financial difficulties, it was closed in 1929. While fundraising inthe USA for the school, Schatz died. His body was brought back to Jerusalem andburied on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. However, the institution wasreopened posthumously, in 1935, as the New Bezalel School for Arts andCrafts.The artists in the Schatz family abounded. There was Boris himself, hisdaughter Zahara Schatz (1916–1999), son Bezalel Schatz (1912–1978), nicknamedLilik, and Bezalel\'s wife Louise (1915–1997). Testament is the 1955 IsraeliPrize for Art to Zahara in recognition of the whole Schatz family.The themesfor most of Boris Schatz\'s artwork are based on the Bible and represent therebirth of the Jewish people. The school he founded turned its backs on thefounder/father\'s predilection for Romantic Classicism and his development of aJewish Eretz-Israel style. Bezalel Schatz became successful, lived inCalifornia in the 1940s, was a brother-in-law of Henry Miller for a time andtogether published in a limited edition (400 copies) the album Into the nightlife. Bezalel Schatz returned to Israel in 1951 and his sister Zahara returnedto Israel in 1979 after many years of fruitfull artisitc work and during whichshe exhibited in various international instulments and among them the MOMAwhere shed was also awarded the MOMA prize.Prizes1898silver medal in Science and Art, Sofia, Bulgaria 1900 gold medal for Bustof an Old Woman 1900 silver medal at Exposition Internationale, Paris 1904silver medal at 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Publications by Boris SchatzOn Art, Artists andtheir Critics (in Hebrew), 1924.The Rebuilt Jerusalem: The RebuiltReality (in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Bezalel Academy, 1924.ReferencesSchatz, Boris (1925). Boris Schatz HisLife & Work a Monograph, Jerusalem: B\'nai Bezalel. ISBN 1-135-29826-2.J. Klausner (1927). Boris Schatz: 31 oil paintings (in English andHebrew), Jerusalem, [n.p.].Nurit Shilo-Cohen, ed. (1983). \"Betsal\'el\"shel Shats, 1906-1929 / Bezalel, 1906-1929, translated from Hebrew intoEnglish by Esther Rosalind Cohen, Jerusalem: Israel Museum.Yigal Zalmona (1985).Boris Schatz (in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House Ltd.NuritShilo Cohen (1994). \"The \'Hebrew Style\' of Bezalel, 1906–1929\", Journalof Decorative and Propaganda Arts, vol. 20, pp. 140–163.Dana Gilerman (5January 2006). \"Prof. Schatz\'s wayward children,\" Haaretznewspaper.Meir Ronnen (20 July 2006). \"The last Schatz,\" TheJerusalem Post. Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel\'s nationalschool of art. It is named after the Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri(Hebrew: ), who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and constructionof the Tabernacle (Exodus 35:30).It is located on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem andhas 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 FineArts (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 twodifferent Master of design (M.des) degree. The academy was founded in 1903 byBoris Schatz, and opened in 1906, but was cut off from its supporters in Europeby World War I, and closed due to financial difficulties in 1929. The academy wasnamed \"Bezalel\" (Hebrew: \"in God\'s shadow\") as anillustration 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 ofthe holy ark.Many early Zionists, including Theodor Herzl, felt that Israelneeded to have a national style of art combining Jewish, Middle Eastern, andEuropean traditions. The teachers at the academy developed a distinctive school(or style) of art, known as the Bezalel school, in which artists portrayed bothBiblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by the European jugendstil(art nouveau) and by traditional Persian and Syrian styles.Like the WienerWerkstätte in Vienna, William Morris firm in England, and Tiffany Studios inNew York, the Bezalel School produced decorative art objects in a wide range ofmedia: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric. While the artists and designerswere European-trained, the craftsmen who executed the works were often membersof the Yemenite community, which has a long tradition of craftsanship inprecious metals, and whose members had been making aliyah in small groups atleast form the beginning of the nineteenth century, forming a distinctiveYeminite community in Jerusalem. Silver and goldsmithing, occupations forofferdento pious Muslims, had been traditional Jewish occupations in Yemen. Yemeniteimmigrants with their colorful traditional costumes were also frequent subjectsof Bezalel school artists.Leading artists of the school include Meir Gur Aryeh,Ze\'ev Raban, Boris Schatz, Jacob Eisenberg, Jacob Steinhardt, and HermannStruck. The School folded because of economic difficulties. It was reopened asthe New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts in 1935, attracting many of itsteachers and students from Germany many of them from the Bauhaus school whichhad been shut down by the Nazis. In 1969 it was converted into astate-supported institution and took its current name. It completed itsrelocation to the current campus in 1990. 1903 ProfessorBoris 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 artsand crafts in the Land of Israel. 1905 The Seventh Zionist Congress inBasel decides to establish the Bezalel School of Art. 1906 ProfessorSchatz establishes the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts on Ethiopia Street inJerusalem. Its goals are: “To train people in Jerusalem in crafts, consolidateoriginal Jewish art and support Jewish artists, and to find visual expressionfor the much yearned national and spiritual independence that seeks to create asynthesis between European artistic traditions and the Jewish design traditionof Eastern Europe, and to integrate it with the local culture of the Land ofIsrael.” 1908 Bezalel moves to its new buildings on what is today Jerusalem’sShmuel Hanagid Street. New departments are opened and the school expands itsscope of activities. 1914 Bezalel is a huge success until World War Icuts it off from its executive committee in Berlin, and from its patrons andsupporters in Europe. This is the year in which the institution is forced tocontend with political, financial and management difficulties.1917 Bezalel isclosed down before the British enter Jerusalem. The Turks decide to deportanyone they suspect might serve as a fifth column and accordingly, exile Schatzto Damascus (and later to Tiberias and Safed). The Bezalel school finds itselfin a serious state of crisis until General Allenby enters Jerusalem in late 1917.1918-1919Schatz returns from exile and Bezalel is reopened. 1929 The Bezalel School ofArts and Crafts is temporarily closed down due to financial difficulties.Schatz goes abroad to raise funds for the school. 1932 Schatz dies in theUnited States while on tour with a traveling exhibition of works by Bezalel’sartists. 1935 The committee in Berlin reopens the New Bezalel School of Artsand Crafts now headed by renowned Berlin print artist Josef Budko. Many of theteachers are from Germany and are strongly influenced by the Bauhaus movement.The emphasis in Bezalel is placed on the study of typography and graphic andpractical arts as an expression of the needs and socio-economic development ofthose years. 1940 Budko dies and Max Bronstein – otherwise known as artistMordechai Ardon – is appointed in his place, a product of the Bauhaus schoolwho taught in Johannes Itten’s art school. World War II brings seriousdifficulties, putting the school’s existence at risk. 1946 WIZO (Women’sInternational Zionist Organization) takes Bezalel under its wing and agrees toprovide 50 percent of its budget. 1947 After World War II ends, the new Bezalelreceives previously unavailable materials, such as natural linen. Many newstudents enroll in the school after the war, and for the first time, the numberof students crosses the 100 mark, reaching 103. Among the new students areseveral survivors of the concentration camps in Europe. 1948 With the end ofthe War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel, theschool’s integration into the national cause is viewed as an importantcontribution to the fledgling state. The teaching of arts and crafts as anacademic subject begins to be held in far greater regard. The new Bezalel viewsitself as duty-bound to expand the teaching of the fine arts in Israel and tobecome Israel’s premier academy of arts. 1952 Ardon leaves Bezalel, andsculptor Zeev Ben-Zvi is appointed to succeed him. The government of Israel,aware of Bezalel’s historic importance and unique role, begins to participatein its funding. After a year, Ben-Zvi is succeeded by Yaakov Steinhardt, who isin turn followed by Yerahmiel Schechter, Yitzhak Aschheim and Felix Darnell.1955 In early 1955, the “New Bezalel” is declared an “Academy of Art.” The studentbody grows to over 200 and the building is enlarged. 1958 The Bezalel Academyof Art is awarded the Israel Prize on the occasion of Israel’s tenthIndependence Day. 1965 Dan Hofner is appointed to head Bezalel and worksintensively to change the school’s legal, financial and academic status. Thisis also the year when Bezalel’s departmental structure begins to consolidateinto its present form. 1966The Department of Fine Arts is established. 1968 TheMinisterial Committee for Economic Affairs decides to turn Bezalel into agovernment company. The Minister of Education and Culture and the FinanceMinister appoint the members of Bezalel’s Board of Directors. 1969 The Ministerof Education and Culture appoints a committee headed by Professor Hanani of theTechnion. This committee recommends that the Council for Higher Education “makean effort to bring the Bezalel school up to the level of an institution ofhigher education”. The Council for Higher Education adopts the committee’srecommendations, appoints a selection and curriculum committee headed byProfessor Danziger, and the name of the school is changed to “Bezalel Academyof Arts and Design”. The term Bezalel school describes a group of artists whoworked in Israel in the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods. It is namedafter the institution where they were employed, the Bezalel Academy,predecessor of today’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and has beendescribed as \"a fusion of ‘oriental\' art and Jugendstil.\" The Academywas led by Boris Schatz, who left his position as head of the Royal Academy ofArts in Sofia, Bulgaria, to make aliyah 1906 and set up an academy for Jewisharts. All of the members of the school were Zionist immigrants from Europe andthe Middle East, with all the psychological and social upheaval that thisimplies. The school developed a distinctive style, in which artists portrayedboth Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by the Europeanjugendstil ( or art nouveau) movement, by symbolism, and by traditional Persianand Syrian artistry. Like the British Arts and Crafts Movement, WienerWerkstätte in Vienna, William Morris firm in England, and Tiffany Studios inNew York, the Bezalel School produced decorative art objects in a wide range ofmedia: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric. While the artists and designerswere European-trained, the craftsmen who executed the works were often membersof the Yemenite community, which has a long tradition of craftsanship inprecious metals, and began to make aliyah about 1880. Yemenite immigrants withtheir colorful traditional costumes were also frequent subjects of BezalelSchool artists.Leading members of the school were Boris Schatz, E.M.Lilien,Ya\'akov Stark, Meir Gur Arie, Ze\'ev Raban, Jacob Eisenberg, JacobSteinhardt, and Hermann Struck.The artists produced not only paintings andetchings, but objects that might be sold as Judiaca or souvenirs. In 1915, theNew York Times praised the “Exquisite examples of filigree work, copper inlay,carving in ivory and in wood,” in a touring exhibit. In the metalwork Moorishpatterns predominated, and the damascene work, in particular, showed bothartistic feeling and skill in execution .