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ARTHUR KOLNIK METAMORPHESES OF A MELODY HASSIDIM WOODCUT NIGUN HASSID JEWISH ART
$ 9.5
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Description
You are bidding on any ONE woodcut print made by the well known Jewish artist Arthur Kolnik. The print was made by the Museum of Art of the Printing in the Holy City of Safad in Israel. There's no date, but it seems to have been made in the 1970s. The illustrations were made for a book called the "Gilgulo of a Niggun", ie the reincarnation of a tune, for lack of a better translation. The story deals with Hassidic Jews and their Rabbi in a small shteyl in Europe.The titles of these prints is as follows (in the order that they appear in the description):
1)Reb Chaimel sings the new El Moleh Rachamim
2) Kiddush Hashem - Sanctification of God's Name
Print measures 6 x 8 inches with at least a 2.5 inch blank margin on most sides.
Very good to excellent condition. Take your choice of any ONE print.
Biography:
Arthur Kolnik was born in Stanislaviv (today Ivano-Frankovsk), Ukraine in 1890.
Jewish painter and printmaker. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the studio of Professor Joseph Mehoffer. The artist was mobilized to serve in the army during World War I.
Exhibited in the United States of America in 1921. Upon return Kolnik settled Chernivtsi.
In 1931 the artist moved to Paris. There he worked as illustrator. Tel Aviv Art Museum organized a major exhibition of works by Kolnik in 1968.
Kolnik died in Paris in 1972.