Erich Glas
Erich Glas , also Ari Glass ( Hebrew עֵרִי גְּלַס Erī glass ; * 1897 in Berlin ; † 1973 in Haifa ) was a German - Israeli graphic artist , painter , illustrator and photographer .
During the First World War he served in the German army as a pilot and photographer for aerial photographs . From 1920 he studied at the Bauhaus Weimar with Lyonel Feininger and Johannes Itten , and then at the Staatliche Kunstschule Berlin with Willy Jaeckelt and Philipp Franck . From 1926 he worked as a freelance graphic artist in Weimar and Berlin.
From 1932 onwards his painting became increasingly political and satirical. In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine . There he became a member of Kibbutz Jagur and regularly took part in regional exhibitions in Haifa. From 1940 he also took part in the exhibitions of the organization Kibbutz haMeuchad (United Kibbutz).
His son Gotthard Glas was the inventor of the Israeli submachine gun Uzi under his Hebrew name Uziel Gal .
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Meissner: Saur General Artist Lexicon - The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 56: Glandorf-Goepfart. KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , pp. 16 and 17.
- ↑ 2002: The Man Who Brought Us the Uzi Dies. Haaretz.com, September 7, 2016, accessed October 27, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glass, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Glass, Ari |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli graphic artist, painter, illustrator and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1973 |
| Place of death | Haifa |