Ludwig Blum

1958 Original travel poster of Ludwig Blum for the city of Nazareth in Israel

1958

Georges Mathieu, French painter and designer, the master of Art Informel, a movement linked to post-war modern painting, produced a series of 16 posters for Air France in 1968. This one is for Israel, suggesting the Star of David and the 7 branches of the candelabra representing the Hebrew...

The 1958 original travel poster for Swissair, titled "Swissair to the Mediterranean," was created by the esteemed Swiss graphic designer Fritz Bühler. This poster exemplifies the mid...

Jerusalem themed poster of painting by Israeli Master. Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Rubin Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galati to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years. In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik, with whom he had shared a studio in Cern?u?i. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery.Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine. Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judea competition.He died in 1974 Artistic career Joseph Zaritsky...

Antique print titled 'Gezigt op Jeruzalem genomen van den weg naar Bethaniën'. Lithograph of Jerusalem from the Road leading to Bethany. Published by C.W. Mieling, circa 1880.