Preface

Ephraim Moshe Lilien is one of my most favorite and appreciated artists, who joined in 1906 Boris Schatz and founded in Jerusalem the eminent Bezalel Academy of Arts , which created the sound background  to the Jewish and Israeli Art in the 20th century.

Biography

Ephriam Moses Lilien, born 1874 in Drohobycz (Galicia,) died 1925 in Badenweiler, Germany.

Photographer and artist in the art nouveau style, particularly noted for his Jewish and Zionist themes, he is sometimes called the "first Zionist Artist."

In 1889-1893 he learned to paint and use graphical techniques, at the Academy of Arts in Kraków; he was lectured by polish painter Jan Matejko from 1890 to 1892. Lilien was one of the most influential Jewish artists of the 20th Century and a founding father of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and a member of the Bezalel School of art. As part of the Jungenstil (“Youth-Style”) art movement, he produced innumerable periodical and book illustrations, bookplates and posters. His work illustrating the three-volume Die Bucher der Bibel with a series of bold, moody and -at times- erotic images both shocked and delighted readers and ensured his fame.

He was a member of the Zionist movement and undertook several journeys to Palestine and the Middle East between 1906 and 1918. While there he produced a series of exquisite photographs of traditional Jews and Arabs, some of which have become iconic and often-reproduced images of Ottoman-era Palestine.

Founders of the Jüdischer Verlag, 1902. Seated: Berthold Feiwel, Martin Buber, Standing: E. M. Lilien, Chaim Weizmann, and Davis Trietsch.

Lilien’s work often re-conceptualized Judaism in mythic and esoteric terms. A classic example of this is his illustration of the “Sabbath Queen.”

His illustrated books, include Juda (1900), Biblically-themes poetry by Lilien's Christian friend, Börries Freiherr von Münchausen, and Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the Ghetto) (1903), Yiddish poems by Morris Rosenfeld translated into German.

His portrait photograph of Theodor Herzl is widely reproduced.

 Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Lilien

 

^{BOOKS - From my collection.}

  ^{Die Bucher der BIBEL}

^{3 volumes: published in 1908-1910 - 1st Edition,}

                                    ^{and in 1918-1919 - 2nd Edition.}

 

 

  ^{Lieder des Ghetto}

Rosenfeld, Morris. Illustrated by E. M. Lilien, 1903

 

 

  ^JUDA

Lilien, E.M. Freiherrn v. Münchhausen, Börries (1900)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Haggadah Book

  BEZALEL E.M LILIEN (1977 )

 

 

 

I am presenting only a selective and a limited series of etchings from my collection.

 

 

 

 

 

  

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