Jakob Steinhardt
- Item number 60
- Artist's name Jakob Steinhardt, 1887-1968
- Item name Jews in the Old City, 1939
- Technique Oil on canvas
- Measurements 67X80 cm
- Signed Signed and dated.
- Estimate $5000 - 7000
- Literature Jacob and Israel: Homeland and Identity in the Work of Jakob Steinhardt, The Open Musuem, Industrial Park, Tefen, 1998, p. 154, no. 213 illustrated (different year and measurements: 1913, 120x80)
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About The Artist
painter and woodcut artist, born 1887, Zerkow, Germany.
Education
1906 School of Art, Berlin.
1907 painting with Louis Corinth and engraving with Herman Struck.
1908-10 advanced studies, Paris, with Matisse and Steinlen;
1911 Italy.
Teaching
Bezalel, Jerusalem, 1953-57 Director.
Awards and Prizes
Won international prizes for his wood-cuts, 1955-58 .