Fiszel Zylberberg (Zber) (Polish, 1909-1942)

Portfolio including 39 Zber's woodcuts from ...

Portfolio including 39 Zber's woodcuts from Plock-Warsaw and Paris. RARE! Woodcut, 33 x 25 cm each, Plate signed, Signed with the Museum of the Printing Art (Safed, Israel) embossed stamp.

The portfolio includes the 39 surviving woodcuts that make up the artistic heritage left of Fiszel Zber who perished in the Holocaust.
The Museum of Printing Art in Safed, Israel, published the collection of the original woodcuts by Fiszel Zber by using the original plates, found in a secluded place in the household of French family in Paris just after the liberation of Paris and saved from total destruction by Abraham Ber (AB) Tzerata (Cerata).
AB Tzerata, who was Zber's friend, was a publisher and a Jewish Art collector and one of the founders of The Museum of Printing Art in Zefat.
In 1961, when AB Tzerata immigrated to Israel, he brought with him the original woodblocks (plates) and gave them to the Printing Art Museum where they have been housed: the original woodcuts included in the portfolio were made of them.
All woodcuts in the portfolio were printed on Velin-D'arches paper from the original woodblocks.
The printing was completed in April 1971.
Only 225 numbered copies were published.
Each woodcut is marked by a special stamp of The Museum of Printing Art in Safed.