The present catalogue includes an extensive chapter dedicated to Bezalel artists, including illustrated books, various objects, drawing and paintings. This chapter features numerous original sketches for works by Ze'ev Raban - Raban's sketchbook (lot 318), sketches for illustrations to the Song of Songs (lot 320), sketches of the signs of the Zodiac (lot 327), a large collection of photographs of works by Raban and Meir Gur Aryeh (lot 344), and many other unique items from the estate of Shlomo Kedmi, who succeeded Raban and Gur Aryeh in the Industrial Art Studio.
The chapter dedicated to Hebrew children's books features charming works by prominent writers and illustrators: stories by Benzion Raskin illustrated by Uriel Kahana, Chaim Hanft and Haim Goldberg; poems by Itzhak Katzenelson illustrated by Gertrud Caspari; rhymes by Ya'akov David Kamson illustrated by Else Wenz-Viëtor; children's book published by "Omanut", with color lithograph illustrations by "Chavurat Tsayarim" (Apter, Mutzelmacher, Kravtsov and Higer); pop-up books illustrated by David Gilboa; and other rare books.
The avant-garde chapter features Yiiddish, Hebrew and Russian books, with illustrations and cover-designs by important Russian avant-garde artists such as El Lissitzky, Joseph Chaikov, Issachar Ber Ryback, Mark Epstein and Nathan Altman.
The catalogue further features a variety of choice items representing the history of Palestine and Zionism, bibliophile works, letters, travelogues and maps of Palestine, photographs, postcards, rare Ladino periodicals, works by Safed-based artist Yosef Zvi Geiger, bibliophile works, a chapter dedicated to numismatics, and many more items.
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LOT 37:
Hand-Drawn Poster – A Lecture by Arnold Zweig on the Subject of the Battle of Stalingrad – Haifa, 1944 – ...
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Hand-Drawn Poster – A Lecture by Arnold Zweig on the Subject of the Battle of Stalingrad – Haifa, 1944 – Organization of Austrian Exiles "Free Austrian World Movement"
"The turning point of the war, Stalingrad" – a hand-drawn poster advertising a lecture by Arnold Zweig, held in "Clubhouse Carmelia" vis a vis "Carmelia Court". Haifa: 10 December, [1944]. English.
Hand-made poster (mixed media on paper); the illustration depicts a helmeted skull, wearing a golden monocle, above a snow-covered road. The names of the organizations responsible for organizing the lecture – the Free Austrian World Movement and The Friends of Austria and Austrian Society – are written on the bottom of the poster.
The poster is dated in pencil on verso; an additional penciled note on verso: "Goldstein-Gojan PINX.". The poster was presumably drawn by Jean Goldstein (Romanian-Jewish artist, born in 1918; his first exhibition in Palestine took place in 1947, in the Mikra-Studio art gallery in Tel Aviv).
Author Arnold Zweig (1887-1968) was one of the most vocal opponents of fascism among German Jewry. Following the public burning of his books, Zweig left his homeland Germany, and emigrated to Palestine, where he settled in Haifa. There, he gave many public lectures, condemning Fascism and Nationalism, all the while insisting on lecturing in his native German only. His sole devotion to the German language was heavily criticized in the Jewish Yishuv, and in the late 1940s he decided to leave, and resettled in Germany.
Approx. 50X35 cm. Good-fair condition. Abrasions and pinholes to edges. Minor open tear to top. Some creases. Stains to verso.
