Description: BIG 36*33 cm/ 30*25 cm Woodcut / Engraving of Rabbi by Joseph Budko. Josef HaCohen Budko (1888 -1940)Was a Jewish painter, graphic artist and artist, born in Poland. He served as the principal of the "New Bezalel" School of Art after its opening in 1935.Josef Budko was born in Płońsk, Poland, in 1888. His father was a baker, a traditional and educated Jew, one of the first "Lovers of Zion" in Płońsk. As a teenager he studied in the room and in the meetings of Szczecin, Mir and Lomza. At the age of seventeen he moved to Vilnius to study at the local painting school. After five years of study, Budko moved to Berlin, the capital of Germany. From 1912 he studied with the renowned Jewish graphic artist and painter Hermann Struck. Following his studies in Berlin he decided to focus mainly on woodcuts and painting, and created a long line of engravings, woodcuts and drawings. Later, and especially after his immigration to Palestine, he also painted in oil on canvas. The subjects of his works are mostly drawn from the life of the Jews in the Diaspora, from the life of the Jewish town on holidays and weekdays, from the history of Israel and from the Bible, but some of them are also unrealistic paintings and decorations for works in ordinary Hebrew literature.His most important contributions to Jewish art are illustrations for books and include, among other things, engravings for the Passover Haggadah (1916-1917), woodcuts for depicting events in the Bible (1920), and decorations for the works of Arno Nadel (1920), SY Agnon, Bialik (1923) ), Shmuel Levin (1924), the creation of a "script (font) Budko" and more and more. He also made an important contribution in the field of illustrations of Hebrew book characters (ex libris), in which he tried to take advantage of the decorative possibilities hidden in the Hebrew letter. His famous woodcuts, which have gained fame in the Jewish world, include: "The Vision of the Dry Bones" (1920), "Springs in the Gemara" (1923), "Nobody Will Run Away Like Me", "Kol Barama Neshma" and more.In 1933, Budko immigrated to Eretz Israel, and two years later, when the New Bezalel School of the Arts opened in Jerusalem, Budko served as the director of the institution until his death. Budko died in Jerusalem in July 1940 and was buried in the Mount of Olives cemetery. About a month later, a comprehensive exhibition curated by Mordechai Narkis was held in his memory at the Bezalel House of Disability, in which 239 of his works were displayed. In October of that year, the exhibition traveled to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.Feel free to contact for any question and many more items.[67]
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