Merzer, Arieh

COPPER RELIEF OF A STUDENT [SIGNED BY ARTIST]

Item #39052

Copper Relief. 5 X 9 Inches. Framed on Wooden Panel. This Merzer relief depicts a young Jewish boy holding his books with a shtetl in the background. Artist Arieh Merzer was born in 1905 to a Hassidic family in a town not far from Warsaw. Studied in a Heder and Beit Midrash. In 1927 started to create copper reliefs with Jewish motifs and in 1928 exhibited his works for the first time in an exhibition in Warsaw. In 1930 he moved to Paris where he studied and varied his creations which now included universal motifs. Merzer was a committee member of the Jewish Artists Society in Paris. In 1943 moved to Switzerland where he published an album of graphic works around Jewish motifs. In 1945 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and started right away to exhibit his works. During the Independence War he was one of the first artists to settle in Safed where he lived for the rest of his life. Signed by the Artist in the releif in both Hebrew and English. Very good condition. (PAINT-1-16).

Price: $500.00