Online Auction no. 44, Modern and Contemporary Art
Nov 21, 2019 (Your local time)
Israel

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LOT 41:

Boris Schatz , 1866-1932
Different Subjects

Sold for: $320
Start price:
$ 200
Estimated price:
$300 - $400
Auction house commission: 20%
VAT: On commission only
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Different Subjects
Artist's name: Boris Schatz , 1866-1932
Item name: Different Subjects
Technique: Lot includes 14 miniature metal reliefs
Measurements: 47X48 cm
Estimate: $300 - 400
Remarks: Silvered reliefs of Herzl and Jewish figures, framed together. Some reliefs needs cleaning.

About The Artist:
Boris Schatz is best known as the founding father and first director of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem. The school was founded in 1906 following discussions in the Seventh Zionist Congress in Basel (1905). The initiative was supported by Theodore Herzl. Bezalel was an art school, a museum and workshop. Arts and crafts were deliberately merged since Schatz believed that “it was impossible to be an artist without being an artisan.” The students at Bezalel studied
Hebrew alongside art, testament to the school’s commitment to the Zionist vision.
Born in Lithuania to an Orthodox family, Schatz travelled xtensively throughout Europe. After living in Paris during the early 1890s, he spent ten years in Bulgaria where he helped to found the Academy of Art in Sofia and was named crown sculptor of the court of Bulgaria. During this period (circa 1903-1904) Schatz, himself a staunch Zionist, began focusing on Jewish subjects in his sculpture and painting, as he believed
his purpose as an artist was to ‘express the soul of the nation.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
N. Shilo-Cohen, Bezalel 1906-1929 (Jerusalem, 1983), p. 19