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Isidor Ascheim ( he, איזידור אשהיים; 1891-1968) was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker.
Biography
Isidor Ascheim was born in
Margonin
Margonin (german: Margonin) is a town in Chodzież County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,941 inhabitants (2004).
History
Margonin dates back to the 7th century, and in the 9th–12th it was a defensive stronghold, which became p ...
(present-day
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
) in 1891. He was raised in an
Orthodox Jewish
Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist and theologically conservative branches of contemporary Judaism. Theologically, it is chiefly defined by regarding the Torah, both Written and Oral, as revealed by God to Moses on M ...
family and served during
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. In 1919-23, Ascheim studied under the
German Expressionist
German Expressionism () consisted of several related creative movements in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s. These developments were part of a larger Expressionist movement in north and central ...
Otto Mueller
Otto Müller (16 October 1874 – 24 September 1930) was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement.
Life and work
Mueller was born in Liebau (now Lubawka, Kamienna Góra County), Kreis Landeshut, Silesia. Betwe ...
in
Breslau and was influenced by
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 – 27 January 1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group ''Die Brücke'' ("The Bridge") which existed 1905–1913. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Oly ...
of the
Die Brücke
The Brücke (Bridge), also Künstlergruppe Brücke or KG Brücke was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905. Founding members were Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Later memb ...
(The Bridge) group. He
immigrated
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to
Mandate Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...
in 1940 and settled in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
. He was married to the Israeli painter Margot Lange-Ascheim.
Artistic career
He taught at the
Bezalel School of Art and served as its director for several years. Ascheim's art is based on a direct impression of nature, life and the human form. His oeuvre represents a continuous connection with nature and the human figure, usually executed with a dark palette, the legacy of his German Expressionist roots.
Landscape by Isidor Aschheim
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Awards and recognition
*In 1953, Ascheim was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize
The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture is awarded annually by the Tel Aviv-Yafo
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb ...
for Painting.
*In 1955, he received the Jerusalem Prize
The Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society is a biennial literary award given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society.
It is awarded at the Jerusalem International Book Forum (previously kn ...
for Art.
*In 1956, he participated in the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
.
Selected collections
* ''Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco''
* ''Israel Museum'', Jerusalem
References
Further reading
* ''Isidor Aschheim: Drawings & Prints'' zidor Ashhaim: rishumim ve-hedpesim Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1966.
* Talpir, Gabriel. ''100 Artists in Israel''. Tel-Aviv: Gazith Art Publishing, 1971.
External links
*
Artnet.com
(Isidor Aschheim)
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1891 births
1968 deaths
People from Margonin
People from the Province of Posen
German military personnel of World War I
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine
Jewish painters
Israeli male painters
Academic staff of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
20th-century German painters
20th-century Israeli male artists
German male painters