Jacob Eisenberg, Bezalel School Jerusalem, Middle Eastern Arab Man in Turban Circa 1920s Etching, c.1930

Description

Genre: Realism
Subject: Portrait
Medium: Etching
Surface: Paper
Country: Israel
Dimensions with Frame: 18" x 114"

Jacob Eisenberg (1897–1965) (also … more Genre: Realism
Subject: Portrait
Medium: Etching
Surface: Paper
Country: Israel
Dimensions with Frame: 18" x 114"

Jacob Eisenberg (1897–1965) (also Yaakov Eisenberg) was an Israeli artist and a member of the Bezalel school. Many of the students went on to become well-known artists, among them Meir Gur Aryeh, Ze'ev Raban, Shmuel Ben David, Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, Zeev Ben-Zvi, Jacob Eisenberg, Jacob Pins, Jacob Steinhardt and Hermann Struck and Abel Pann.

In 1912, Bezalel had one female student, Marousia (Miriam) Nissenholtz, who used the pseudonym Chad Gadya.
Eisenberg was born in Pinsk and immigrated to the land of Israel in 1913. He studied art at the School for Arts and Crafts in Vienna, specializing in ceramics and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, where he continued as a teacher for many years.
Particularly notable was his creation of a series of ceramic plaques and murals for the early buildings of Tel Aviv. These included the cities first street signs, ceramic plaques in deep blue inscribed with the street names in Hebrew, Arabic and English that were affixed to the corners of buildings. The surviving plaques are now treasured historic landmarks. Large Eisenberg murals enliven the facades of several Tel Aviv buildings, including the 1925 Lederberg house, at the intersection of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street. The four murals show a Jewish pioneer sowing and harvesting, a shepherd, and Jerusalem with a verse from Jeremiah 31:4, "Again I will rebuild thee and thous shalt be rebuilt."
Works
Stained Glass, Great Synagogue, Tel Aviv
Ceramics and stained glass, Y.M.C.A., Jerusalem
Exhibitions
Jerusalem Artists' House, 1957 less