Jakob Loew

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Jakob Löw (born May 4, 1887 in Ivano-Frankivsk , Galicia , † 1968 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa , Israel ) was an Austrian carver and sculptor of the Jewish faith.

Life

Jakob Löw first completed an apprenticeship as a carver, then until 1909 the technical school for sculpture in Zakopane . He then went to Vienna, where he studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1910 to 1915 . His teachers were Oskar Strnad , Josef Breitner and Franz Barwig . Study trips took Löw to Dalmatia , Italy and Paris .

Löw was an employee of the Wiener Werkstätte and a member of the Hagenbund (from 1927 to 1935). In addition, he was a member of the Austrian Werkbund and the Vienna Sculptor Association .

In 1924 he took part in a collective exhibition at Galerie Würthle . He was awarded a prize for his 1926 design for the Austrian State Medal. In the same year he exhibited his bronze sculpture Lots Weib in the Vienna Secession . In 1930 the works Self-Portrait and Lonely People were on view in an exhibition by the Hagenbund .

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, Jakob Löw fled to Israel, where he died in Tel Aviv in 1968.

Works (excerpt)

  • Statuette Deutschmeister in Eisen , 1915, wood, nailed, 73.5 × 23 × 24 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
  • Statuette Faun with Capricorn , around 1920, bronze

literature

  • Isabella Gartner: Menorah. Jewish family journal for art, science and literature (1923–1932). Materials on the history of a Viennese Zionist magazine. Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-3864-8 , p. 97
  • Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 111 f.
  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1929, volume 23, p. 325.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Leipzig 1929, volume 23, p. 325.
  2. ↑ on lot-tissimo.com , accessed December 20, 2012
  3. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 111 f.
  4. ↑ on beyars.com , accessed December 12, 2012
  5. ↑ on Google Books , online edition, accessed December 21, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Löw, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Israeli sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivano-Frankivsk
DATE OF DEATH 1968
Place of death Tel Aviv-Jaffa