Personal Album with Dozens of Photographs of the Artist Yosef Budko and his Family - Germany, the 1920's-1930's - ...

Personal Album with Dozens of Photographs of the Artist Yosef Budko and his Family - Germany, the 1920's-1930's - from the Artist's House!
The Jewish artist Yosef Budko (1888-1940) was born in Plonsk, Poland. When he was 17, he moved to Vilnius to study at the local school of arts. In 1910, he moved to Berlin where he studied with the well-known Jewish artist Hermann Struck. Following his studies in Berlin, he focused mainly on woodcuts and drawing and created a series of engravings, woodcuts and illustrations, most of which describes Jewish life in the Diaspora and express intense longing for his parents' house and the life of the "Shteitel". In 1933, Budko immigrated to the Land of Israel and two years later was appointed the director of the "New Bezalel" School of Arts. He served as the director till his dying day.
Budko married Rachel Goldschmidt, a Jewess from Berlin, when he was thirty. The couple lived in an apartment (which included Budko's studio) in Zigmundhof, a respectable neighborhood of Berlin. The couple had no children.

The album before us is a special, rare "Bezalel" album. The binding of the album us brown, decorated with flower reliefs and at its middle a cooper relief shaped as a large coin with Herzl's profile and an inscription around it: "Herzl if you will it, it is no dream". The circle is defined by a golden line and the golden words: "Bezalel Jerusalem".
The album contain 35 photographs. About half of them were taken inside his house and studio, in Berlin with his wife Rachel and relatives, surrounded by his paintings which are hanging on the walls of his house. Other photographs show Budko in a house in the village, spending time with his wife and relatives.
Condition: Good-Very Good. A complete album, all photographs are glued to the leaves of the album (cardboard). Two photographs are faded. There are two holes in the binding attached by string to fasten its leaves. There are rust signs on the margins of the embossment of Herzl's profile.
20x30 cm.