Jacob Steinhardt

Jacob Steinhardt studied at Académie Julian. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting, wood engraving technique and graphics. Employment is recorded with Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Work by Jacob Steinhardt is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Bar-David Museum of Art and Judaica, Hecht Museum, Israel Museum and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.

• Born — 24 May 1887 • Birthplace — Zerkow • Died — 11 February 1968 • Place of death — Nahariya

• Illustration — Jacob Steinhardt (age) with his daughter, Josepha, and the children of a friend, in Jerusalem in 1942. The photograph was taken by a friend of Steinhardt, Josef Tal. Jacob Steinhardt was born in Zerkow, German Empire (now Żerków, Poland). He attended the School of Art in Berlin in 1906, then studied painting with Lovis Corinth and engraving with Hermann Struck in 1907. From 1908 to 1910, he lived in Paris, where he associated with Henri Matisse and Théophile Steinlen, and in 1911, he was in Italy. When World War I broke out, he enlisted in the German Army, and served on the Eastern Front in Poland and Lithuania, and then in Macedonia. After the war, he returned to Berlin, and in 1922 married Minni Gumpert. They immigrated to Palestine in 1933, after he was harassed by the German police, dominated by the Nazis who had recently come to power. Steinhardt died in 1968. He is buried in Nahariya.

• Illustration — "Groteske X", a woodcut from 1952. This was part of a series of grotesque woodcuts which he started in 1950. Jacob Steinhardt worked mainly in woodcuts depicting biblical and Jewish subjects. He participated in the Berlin Secession and founded the Pathetiker Group. He was a member of the Bezalel school group. In 1934, Steinhardt opened an art school in Jerusalem. In 1948, he became Chairman of the Graphics Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He served as director of the school during 1954–1957.