Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
The Bezal'el Academy of Art and Design ( Hebrew בְּצַלְאֵל, אֲקָדֶּמְיָה לְאָמָּנוּת וְעִצּוּב Bəzal'el - Aqademjah lə-Ommanūt wə-ʿIzzūv , English Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design , Plene tooעיצוב) is a state-owned art and design college in Jerusalem with around 2,116 students (as of the 2013/2014 academic year).
history
The Bezal'el School of Applied Arts (בְּצַלְאֵל, בֵּית מִדְרָשׁ לְאָמָּנוּת וְלִמְלָאכוֹת-אָמָּנוּת Bəzal'el - Bejt Midrash lə-Ommanūt wə-li-Mlāchōt-Ommanūt , German ‚Bezal'el-Lehrhaus für Kunst und [the] craft of art ' ), as the name was until 1934, originated from an idea of Boris Schatz in 1903, for whose realization he won Hirsch Hildesheimer , Ephraim Moses Lilien , Franz Oppenheimer , Selig Eugen Soskin , Hermann Struck and Otto Warburg , who found the mental and financial support to finally found the university through their joint appeal in the Berlin magazine Altneuland .
Schatz, member and drawing teacher of the Bulgarian Academy of Arts from 1896 to 1900 , opened the arts and crafts school in Jerusalem, which was then still Ottoman , on March 1, 1906, and named it after the Old Testament Bezalel , who according to Ex 31.1ff. EU and 35,30ff. EU had received the divine commission to build the tabernacle (the first biblical architect and designer, so to speak). At the beginning the academy consisted of two departments, one dealing with arts, the other with arts and crafts.
After many German artists began to flee to the Holy Land in the course of the Fifth ʿAlijah , the university was redesigned and from 1935 on it operated as the New Bezal'el School for Crafts and Art (בֵּית הַסֵּפֶר בְּצַלְאֵל הָחָדָשׁ לְאֻמָּנוּת וּלְאָמָּנוּת Bejt ha-Sefer Bəzal'el ha-Chadasch lə-Ummanūt ū-lə-Ommanūt , English [New] Bezalel School of Arts & Crafts ), with the addition of Neue then dropped in 1955. The university has had its current name since 1969.
The Bezalel Academy is now the largest design and art college in the Middle East . Since 1986, most of its faculties have been housed on the new campus on Mount Scopus above the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .
The academy offers training in the following courses: fine arts , visual communication , photography , industrial design , jewelry design , architecture , ceramics and glass, animation , film, and art history and theory . It offers Master’s degrees in various courses , such as the Master’s Program in Fine Arts in collaboration with the Hebrew University.
Known students
- Shy Abady (born 1965)
- Yaacov Agam (born 1928)
- Nir Alon (born 1964)
- Arie Aroch (1908–1974)
- Asaf Avidan (born 1980)
- Jehuda Bacon (born 1929)
- Irit Batsry (born 1957)
- Jochanan Ben-Jaacov (1913-2003)
- Naftali Bezem (born 1924)
- Noam Braslavsky (born 1961)
- Dani Gal (born 1975)
- David Gerstein (born 1944)
- Michael Gitlin (born 1943)
- Itshak Holtz (born 1925)
- Halina Jaworski (born 1952)
- Dov Karmi (1905-1962)
- Mosche Kastel (1909–1991)
- Rutu Modan (born 1966)
- Michal Rovner (born 1957)
- Gretty Rubinstein (1948-2001)
- Osama Said (born 1957)
- Esther Shalev-Gerz (born 1948)
- Friedel Stern (1917-2006)
- Hermann Zwi Szajer (born 1948)
- Nomi Talisman (video artist and film producer)
- Micha Ullman (born 1939)
literature
- Ori Z. Soltes: Bezalel. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 1: A-Cl. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02501-2 , pp. 302-306.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ המועצה להשכלה גבוהה (Israeli Council for Higher Education): סטודנטים במוסדות להשכלה גבוהה (annual statistics of students at universities and academies) for the academic year 2013/2014 (Hebrew).
- ↑ Mordecai Naor: Eretz Israel. The 20th century. Könemann, Cologne, 1998, p. 32. ISBN 3-89508-594-4 .