Jacob Eisenberg

For the American musician and author, see Jacob Eisenberg (musician).

Jacob Eisenberg (1897–1965) (also Yaakov Eisenberg) was an Israeli artist and a member of the Bezalel school.[1]

Tiles and ornamental vessels, plaques, and decorations for house facades, produced at the workshop. Standing left - Y. Eisenberg; seated: Zahara Schatz.

Eisenberg was born in Pinsk and immigrated to Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem 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,[2] where he continued as a teacher for many years.[3]

Particularly notable was his creation of a series of ceramic plaques and murals for the early buildings of Tel Aviv. These included the city's 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."[4][5]

Works

  • Stained Glass, Great Synagogue, Tel Aviv
  • Ceramics and stained glass, Y.M.C.A., Jerusalem

Exhibitions

  • Jerusalem Artists' House, 1957

References

  1. ^ Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs, By Adrian M. Darmon, Paris, Carnot, 2003 p.138
  2. ^ "Israeli Art Index -E".
  3. ^ [1] Archived November 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Chaim Nachman Bialik Home, in Batia Carmiel, Tiles Adorned City; Bezalel ceramics on Tel Aviv Houses, 1923-1929), Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, copyright 1996, book in Hebrew and some English with illustrations
  5. ^ A place in history: modernism, Tel Aviv, and the creation of Jewish urban space, By Barbara E. Mann, Stanford University Press, 2006 p.111