Ephraim Moses Lilien

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Ephraim Moses Lilien
print-maker
MovementBezalel school

Maurycy "Ephraim Moses" Lilien (Polish:

Zionist artist."[1]

Biography

Maurycy Lilien was born in 1874 in

Drohobycz, Galicia,[2] then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1889–1893, Lilien learned painting and graphic techniques at the Academy of Arts in Kraków. He studied under Polish painter Jan Matejko from 1890 to 1892.[citation needed
]

As a member of the

Zionist Movement, Lilien traveled to Ottoman Palestine several times between 1906 and 1918.[3]

Lilien attended the Fifth

Zionist Congress, held in Basel, as a member of the Democratic Fraction, an opposition group that supported the development of secular national culture.[4] In 1905, at the Seventh Zionist Congress, in Basel, he, along with Boris Schatz, became a member of a committee formed to help establish the Bezalel Art School.[2] As part of that work he accompanied Schatz to Jerusalem.[1]

Art career

Lilien was one of the two artists to accompany Boris Schatz to what is now

Eretz Israel style, placing biblical subjects in the Zionist context and oriental settings, conceived in an idealized Western design. In the first two decades of the century, Lilien's work served as a model for the Bezalel group
.

Lilien is known for his famous photographic portrait of Theodor Herzl. He often used Herzl as a model, considering his features a perfect representation of the "New Jew."[5] In 1896, he received an award for photography from the avant-garde magazine Jugend. Lilien illustrated several books. In 1923, an exhibition of his work opened in New York.[3]

Lilien's illustrated books include Juda (1900), Biblically themed poetry by Lilien's Christian friend,

Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen, and Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the Ghetto) (1903), Yiddish poems by Morris Rosenfeld
translated into German.

Lilien died in Badenweiler, Germany in 1925. A street in the Nayot neighborhood of Jerusalem is named for him.

Gallery

  • "Sunflower" (Sonnenblume), Jugend, Berlin, 1893
    "Sunflower" (Sonnenblume), Jugend, Berlin, 1893
  • Ex libris Stefan Zweig c. 1900
  • "The Queen of Sabbath", from Juda, Berlin, 1900-1
    "The Queen of Sabbath", from Juda, Berlin, 1900-1
  • "The Silent Song" from Juda, 1900–1.[6]
    "The Silent Song" from Juda, 1900–1.[6]
  • 'May our eyes behold your return in mercy to Zion, Fifth Zionist Congress souvenir, Basel, 1901.[7]
    'May our eyes behold your return in mercy to Zion, Fifth Zionist Congress souvenir, Basel, 1901.[7]
  • Theodor Herzl in Basel, 1901
    Theodor Herzl in Basel, 1901
  • Ost und West, 1903
    Ost und West, 1903
  • Homage to the victims of the first Chișinău pogrom, 1903.[8]
    Homage to the victims of the
    first Chișinău pogrom, 1903.[8]
  • Jewish child from Lieder des Ghetto, 1903
    Jewish child from Lieder des Ghetto, 1903
  • "Zion", Lieder des Ghetto, 1903
    "Zion", Lieder des Ghetto, 1903
  • Ex libris Boris Schatz, 1905
    Ex libris
    Boris Schatz, 1905
  • Emblem of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, 1906
    Emblem of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, 1906
  • An Allegorical Wedding: Sketch for a carpet Triptych (from right to left): Exile, Marriage, Redemption, 1906
    An Allegorical Wedding: Sketch for a carpet Triptych (from right to left): Exile, Marriage, Redemption, 1906
  • Portrait, photograph, 1906
    Portrait, photograph, 1906
  • Joshua, 1908
    Joshua, 1908
  • Abraham, 1908
    Abraham, 1908
  • Balaam, [1908]
    Balaam, [1908]
  • Dybbuk, [1908]
    Dybbuk, [1908]
  • Kotel (Western Wall), 1910
    Kotel (Western Wall), 1910
  • In the Library, engraving, 1915
    In the Library, engraving, 1915
  • Sofer of the Torah, sewing its parchments, engraving, 1915
    Sofer of the Torah, sewing its parchments, engraving, 1915
  • Learning Talmud, engraving, 1915
    Learning Talmud, engraving, 1915
  • Figures, photograph, c. 1918
    Figures, photograph, c. 1918
  • The Samaritan, engraving, c. 1920
    The Samaritan, engraving, c. 1920

References

  1. ^ a b Haim Finkelstein, Lilien and Zionism Archived 2004-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ – via Encyclopedia.com.
  3. ^ a b On Ephraim Moses Lilien Archived 2007-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. . p. 59.
  5. ^ "Artistic Expressions of the Jewish Renaissance". George Washington University Libraries. Archived from the original on 2014-06-24.
  6. ^ Levussove, New Art of an Ancient People: Lilien, p. 12: "The Silent Song".
  7. ^ Image published in Ost und West, Berlin, January 1902, 17-18.
  8. ^ Image published in Ost und West, December 1904, 848-850.

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