Jakob Steinhardt

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Jakob Steinhardt (also Jacob Steinhardt ; born May 23 or 27, 1887 in Zerkow , Jarotschin district ; † February 11, 1968 in Naharija , Israel ) was a German-Israeli expressionist painter and graphic artist .

Career

In 1906/07 he studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts with Lovis Corinth and Hermann Struck , then from 1907 in Paris first with Jean Paul Laurens , then with Henri Matisse and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen . In 1910 he returned to Berlin, in 1911 he went on a trip through Italy. Back in Berlin in 1912 he founded the artist group Die Pathetiker together with Ludwig Meidner and Richard Janthur ; the group had their first exhibition in Herwarth Walden's “Sturm-Galerie” in the same year . In 1913 Steinhardt exhibited in the newly opened Flechtheim Gallery in Düsseldorf. Jakob Steinhardt was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Jakob Steinhardt with his friends, around 1942, photographed by Josef Tal , with whom Steinhardt was friends

As a soldier in World War I , Steinhardt got to know parts of Poland and Lithuania ; the Eastern Jewish life he discovered in the process led to a rediscovery of his own religion, which was also reflected in his art.

In 1933 he fled to Palestine ( Jerusalem ) with his wife Minni and daughter Josefa , where he had been a lecturer at the national Bezalel school for arts and crafts from 1947 and its director from 1953–1957.

He won international prizes at the São Paulo Biennale (1955) and Venice (1960).

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Steinhardt came out mainly with graphic sequences based on Jewish and biblical motifs (color woodcuts for the Haggada 1920/21, etchings with poems by Arno Nadel under the title “Red and glowing is the eye of the Jew”; lithographs for the “Musical Novellas” and the “Parables “By JL Perez et al.).

In addition to Struck and Budko , he was the main representative of an art specifically interested in Jewish and is considered to be one of the most convincing actors in the Eastern Jewish world.

His painting "Der Sonntagsprediger", created before 1934, with the impressive symbol of unheard reminders, hangs in the Jewish Museum Berlin (see the picture in the FAZ on August 19, 2020, no. 192, page 9) for the redesign of the permanent exhibition .

literature

  • Abraham Horodisch , Jakob Steinhardt. Nine woodcuts for the Sirah beech . Announcements from the Soncino Society , No. 4, 1929.
  • L. Kolb, Woodcuts of Jakob Steinhardt. 1959
  • C. Gamzu, Graphic Art by Jakob Steinhardt. 1963
  • R. Pfefferkorn, Jakob Steinhardt. 1967
  • Z. Amishai-Maisels, Jakob Steinhardt. Etchings and Lithographs. Jerusalem-Tel Aviv 1981
  • Harald Lordick, Thirty woodcuts, one etching. In: KALONYMOS . 4th year, 2001, issue 3, p. 27f. ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Jakob Steinhardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia
  2. ↑ Jane Turner: The Dictionary of Art. 1996
  3. ↑ s. Steinhardt, Jakob in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fourth volume (QU) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 355)
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Steinhardt, Jakob ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 27, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Steinhardt, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinhardt, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli expressionist painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Zerkow, district of Jarotschin
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1968
Place of death Nahariya , Israel