Unique Chanukkiya by Zelig Segal. Israel, ca. 1990

Unique Chanukkiya by Zelig Segal. Israel, ca. 1990

Unique modern work of art by the important Bezalel artist Zelig Segal.

Segal's cylindrical shapes and smooth surface form an emotional context for the lit candles whose flames are reflected numerous times in the polished silver.  

Like Segal's other innovative works of art, this work too has a beautiful sculptural presence that makes it decorative as well as functional.

Zelig Segal: an Israeli designer, sculptor and Judaica artist whose boundless innovativeness suprised and impressed anyone who saw his works of art, which were both functional and decorative. 

Zelig was born in Jerusalem in 1933 and grew up in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood. His mother was the midwife of the Yishuv of Hebron and his father, a Melamed of the Etz Chaim Talmud Torah of the Mazkeret Moshe neighborhood. In his youth, he studied in a Cheider and later, at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva and the Torat Emet Yeshiva of Chabad.

When he was 16, assisted by a scholarship he received from David Ben Gurion, Segal began studying at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and during the years 1949-1954, studied at the Metal department, specializing in sculpturing and metal design. Already in Bezalel he became interested in modern Judaica, as he put it, which combined the religious prohibition of making sculptures and pictures and the design style he was taught by his teachers at Bezalel, who were graduates of the Bauhause: David Heinz Gumbel and Yehuda Wolpert. Segal lived in Jerusalem, working at a workshop in the Hutzot Hayotzer artists' colony of the town. Passed away in 2015.

Peso:	1019 gr
Medidas:	22 x 23.5 cm