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Silver Hanukkah Menorah, Handmade by the Artist David Heinz Gumbel. Germany, ca. 1930 - This Menorah was exhibited for more than a decade in the Eretz Yisrael Museum - as part of the Local Judaica Exhibition - 1880-1967.  Special and quality silver Hanukkah Menorah, designed and made by the jeweler David Heinz Gumbel, one of the first and most important modern Judaica artists of our time and one of the teachers at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.  ”Wolpert and Gumbel understood that art can be made to capture the spirit of the era, that Judaica can be innovative, it is part of our culture”.  David Gumbel alongside his friend Yehuda Ludwig Wolpert transformed the traditional design of Judaica items. With their students at Bezalel, they made Judaica items, jewelry and silverware inspired by the Bauhaus school of design - clean of elaborate decorations, original, functional and innovative, with modernist, flowing curves. The shape of this Hanukkah Menorah is clean, aesthetic and tastefully designed. It has a stem on a round base made with lovely handmade hammering. Its branches are long and thin and at their end, Gumbel placed designed candle-holders. There is a star-of-David on the top of the stem. David Heinz Gumbel : an Israeli Jeweler and designer, one of the first and most important designers of modern Judaica. Was born in Germany in 1906 to a non-orthodox Jewish family that produced hardware and silverware. In the 1920s, he studied silversmithing at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) of  Charlottenburg, Berlin. In 1936, Gumbel immigrated to Eretz Yisrael and joined the Bezalel Academy as a teacher and head of the Metal Department alongside his friend, Yehuda Wolpert.  16X29 cm. 251 gr.  Enclosed is confirmation by the Eretz Yisrael Museum that this Hanukkah Lamp was displayed as part of its exhibit ”Local Judaica” for almost 15 years. In addition, pictures from the Museum Catalog are also available, with a description of the item.  A classic modern important piece of Judaica from the 1930s.