Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert

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Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert (born October 7, 1900 in Heidelsheim , † November 6, 1981 in New York City ) was a Jewish designer , sculptor and artisan of German origin.

Life

Wolpert grew up in a traditional Jewish family. From 1916 to 1920 he studied sculpture at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Frankfurt am Main . Between 1925 and 1928 he learned the artistic use of metals from Leo Horowitz, a representative of the Bauhaus style. In 1930 Wolpert created his first sacred work , a Seder plate . In 1933 he emigrated to Palestine , where he became a professor at the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem in 1935 .

Wolpert in Café Taamon, up in the circle

Wolpert became one of the most influential designers of sacred Jewish objects and also created numerous public works over the next few decades. In 1948 the first Israeli President Chaim Weizmann presented Torah scrolls designed by Wolpert as a gift to Harry S. Truman . Wolpert also designed the entrance area of ​​the Jewish chapel at John F. Kennedy Airport and the Jewish prayer room of the United States Air Force Academy chapel in Colorado Springs . His works are characterized by their modern style, the clear geometric shapes and the absence of ornamental jewelry.

In 1956 Wolpert became director of the Tobe Pascher Workshop at the Jewish Museum (NYC), an institution for religious Jewish artists and their students. He was also a professor at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles . In 1976 he received an honorary doctorate from the Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago . In the same year the Jewish Museum held a large retrospective of his work.

Wolpert's works include a. in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts , the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Penn., and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh . His estate is in the Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History , New York.

literature

  • Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert: A retrospective . New York: The Jewish Museum 1976. (exhibition catalog)
  • Ludwig Y. Wolpert, October 7, 1900 - November 6, 1981. In memoriam Ludwig Y. Wolpert . o. O. [New York] 1981.
  • Michael Brenner: The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany . New Haven, Conn .: Yale University Press 1996. ISBN 0-300-07720-3
  • Susan L. Braunstein: Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from The Jewish Museum: A Catalog Raisonne . New York: Jewish Museum 2005. ISBN 0-300-10623-8
  • Sharon Weiser-Ferguson: Forging Ahead: Wolpert and Gumbel, Israeli Silversmiths for the Modern Age . Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Files for naturalization, online https://www.archives.gov.il/en/archives/#/Archive/0b07170680034dc1/File/0b0717068107c63f
  2. ↑ s. also to the following: Giter / Oummia (weblink)
  3. ↑ Braunstein, p. 186; Jenna Weissman Joselit: The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950 . New York 1994, Reprint 2002, p. 169: Grace Grossman: Jewish Museums of the World . Westport, Conn. 2003, p. 21
  4. ↑ Ludwig Wolpert, a Sculptor Of Jewish Objects, Dies at 81 (web link)
  5. ^ Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert: A retrospective , passim; Kenneth A. Briggs: Museum Show Honors Wolpert . In: The New York Times v. 4th July 1976
personal data
SURNAME Wolpert, Ludwig Yehuda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-US-American-Israeli sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelsheim
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1981
Place of death New York City