Isidor Aschheim

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Isidor Aschheim , also Isidor Ascheim , (born October 14, 1891 in Margonin ; died May 19, 1968 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli painter and graphic artist .

Life

Aschheim, scion of an Orthodox Jewish family, studied from 1919 to 1923 at the Breslau Art Academy under Fryderyk Pautsch and the expressionist Otto Mueller . In 1925 he became a member of the Silesian Artists Association , within which he also belonged to the group in 1922 . In 1933 he was banned from working and exhibiting. In 1939 he decided to emigrate to Palestine . In 1943 he became a teacher at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem , of which he was later also director.

literature

  • Maciej Łagiewski : Jews from Breslau 1850–1944. Wrocław 1996, ISBN 978-8-390-52271-5 .
  • Malgorzata Stołarska-Fronia: Isidor Aschheim. The artist of "chaos" and "impulsivity" . In: Dagmar Schmengler u. a. (Ed.): Painter. Mentor. Magician. Otto Mueller and his network in Breslau, Heidelberg a. a .: Kehrer 2018. ISBN 978-3-86828-873-5 , pp. 310-316.

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