1920 Bezalel E.M.LILIEN Original GRAVURE POSTCARD Jewish JUDAICA Eretz ISRAEL for Sale

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1920 Bezalel E.M.LILIEN Original GRAVURE POSTCARD Jewish JUDAICA Eretz ISRAEL For Sale

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1920 Bezalel E.M.LILIEN Original GRAVURE POSTCARD Jewish JUDAICA Eretz ISRAEL:
$42.30

DESCRIPTION : Up for sale is an over 90 years old original Ca 1920\'s GRAVURE POSTCARD which was designed by the Bezalel artist E.M.LILIEN for his book \" EREZ ISRAEL UND SEIN VOLK ( Eretz Israel and its People ) \" , Published by HARZ VERLAG in Berlin . The illustration is named \" MORGENZEITUNG ( The Morning Newspaper ) \". GRAVURE printing. German headings . Devided back. Unused postaly . 5.5 x 3.5\". Excellent condition. ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images )Card will be sent inside a protective packaging .

PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal .SHIPPMENT : Shipp worldwide via registered airmail is $ 19 . Card will be sent inside a protective packaging . Will be sent around 5-10 days after payment .

Theterm Bezalel school describes a group of artistswho worked in Israel in the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods. It isnamed after the institution where they were employed, the Bezalel Academy,predecessor of today’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and has been describedas \"a fusion of ‘oriental\' art and Jugendstil.\" The Academy was ledby Boris Schatz, who left his position as head of the Royal Academy of Arts inSofia, Bulgaria, to make aliyah 1906 and set up an academy for Jewish arts. Allof the members of the school were Zionist immigrants from Europe and the MiddleEast, with all the psychological and social upheaval that this implies. Theschool developed a distinctive style, in which artists portrayed both Biblicaland Zionist subjects in a style influenced by the European jugendstil ( or artnouveau) movement, by symbolism, and by traditional Persian and Syrianartistry. Like the British Arts and Crafts Movement, Wiener Werkstätte inVienna, William Morris firm in England, and Tiffany Studios in New York, the BezalelSchool produced decorative art objects in a wide range of media: silver,leather, wood, brass and fabric. While the artists and designers wereEuropean-trained, the craftsmen who executed the works were often members ofthe Yemenite community, which has a long tradition of craftsanship in preciousmetals, and began to make aliyah about 1880. Yemenite immigrants with theircolorful traditional costumes were also frequent subjects of Bezalel Schoolartists.Leading members of the school were Boris Schatz, E.M. Lilien,Ya\'akovStark, Meir Gur Arie, Ze\'ev Raban, Jacob Eisenberg, Jacob Steinhardt, andHermann Struck.The artists produced not only paintings and etchings, butobjects that might be sold as Judiaca or souvenirs. In 1915, the New York Timespraised the “Exquisite examples of filigree work, copper inlay, carving inivory and in wood,” in a touring exhibit. In the metalwork Moorish patternspredominated, and the damascene work, in particular, showed both artisticfeeling and skill in execution . BezalelAcademy of Art and Design is Israel\'s national school of art. It is named afterthe Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri (Hebrew: ), who was appointed by Mosesto oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle (Exodus 35:30).It islocated on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem and has 1,500 students registered inprograms 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 ofArchitecture (B.Arch.), Bachelor of Design (B.Des.) degrees, a Master of FineArts 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 in1906, but was cut off from its supporters in Europe by World War I, and closeddue to financial difficulties in 1929. The academy was named\"Bezalel\" (Hebrew: \"in God\'s shadow\") as an illustration ofGod\'s creativity being channeled to a man of flesh and blood, providing thesource of inspiration to Bezalel ben Uri in the construction of the holyark.Many early Zionists, including Theodor Herzl, felt that Israel needed tohave 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 andZionist subjects in a style influenced by the European jugendstil (art nouveau)and by traditional Persian and Syrian styles.Like the Wiener Werkstätte inVienna, William Morris firm in England, and Tiffany Studios in New York, theBezalel School produced decorative art objects in a wide range of media:silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric. While the artists and designers wereEuropean-trained, the craftsmen who executed the works were often members ofthe Yemenite community, which has a long tradition of craftsanship in preciousmetals, and whose members had been making aliyah in small groups at least formthe beginning of the nineteenth century, forming a distinctive Yeminitecommunity in Jerusalem. Silver and goldsmithing, occupations forofferden to piousMuslims, had been traditional Jewish occupations in Yemen. Yemenite immigrantswith their colorful traditional costumes were also frequent subjects of Bezalelschool artists.Leading artists of the school include Meir Gur Aryeh, Ze\'evRaban, Boris Schatz, Jacob Eisenberg, Jacob Steinhardt, and Hermann Struck. TheSchool folded because of economic difficulties. It was reopened as the NewBezalel School 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. Ephraim Moses Lilien(1874–1925) was an art nouveau illustrator and print-maker particularly notedfor his art on Jewish and Zionist themes. He is sometimes called the\"first Zionist artist.\"Ephraim Moses Lilien (Maurycy Lilien) was born in Drohobycz,Galicia in 1874. In 1889-1893 Lilien learned painting and graphic techniques atthe Academy of Arts in Kraków. He studied under Polish painter Jan Matejko from1890 to 1892. As a member of the Zionist Movement, Lilien traveled to OttomanPalestine several times between 1906 and 1918. He accompanied Boris Schatz toJerusalem to help establish the Bezalel Art School. Lilien was one of the twoartists to accompany Boris Schatz to Eretz Israel in 1906 for the purpose ofestablishing Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and taught the school\'s firstclass in 1906. Although his stay in the country was short-lived, he left hisindelible stamp on the creation of an Eretz Israel style, placing biblicalsubjects in the Zionist context and oriental settings, conceived in anidealized Western design. In the first two decades of the century, Lilien\'swork served as a model for the Bezalel group. Artisticcareer Lilien is known for hisfamous photographic portrait of Theodor Herzl. He often used Herzl as a model,considering his features a perfect representation of the \"New Jew.\"In 1896, he received an award for photography from the avantgarde magazine Jugend.Lilien illustrated several books. In 1923, an exhibition of his work opened inNew York. Lilien\'s illustrated books include Juda (1900),Biblically-themes poetry by Lilien\'s Christian friend, Börries Freiherr vonMünchausen, and Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the Ghetto) (1903), Yiddishpoems by Morris Rosenfeld translated into German. Deathand commemoration Lilien died in Badenweiler, Germany in 1925. 2159