Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Famous Rabbis of Israel - Poster - Presented by the "Talmud Thora" School, Vienna, 1933
Opening: $500
Unsold
Famous Rabbis of Israel. Poster printed for the "Talmud Thora" School, Vienna, 1933. Hebrew and English.
Color portraits of eighteen leading Jewish rabbis throughout the generations, including the Rambam, Rashi, the Rif, R. Yosef Karo, R. Moshe Isserles, the Gaon of Vilna, the Chatam Sofer, and others. The portraits are numbered, and the names of the rabbis depicted are listed in the framed legends printed on each side of the poster. The portraits were painted by the Viennese artist Meir Kunstadt, and many of them, although intended as artist's renditions, became the accepted portraits of these rabbis, now widely taken for their actual likenesses.
The poster was printed for the Talmud Thora school in Vienna, and bears a printed dedication at the bottom, with a space for the name of the recipient of the poster, to be filled-in by hand: "To Mr ---, presented from the Board of the Talmud Thora Public School, Vienna".
The school, which was affiliated with the Orthodox community in Vienna, was founded in the 19th century, and was shut down only with the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany.
Approx. 70X50 cm. Good-fair condition. Marginal closed and open tears. Chips. Creases. Poster reinforced on verso with strips of paper to margins. Framed, 86.5X67 cm. Stains, damage and breaks to frame.
Color portraits of eighteen leading Jewish rabbis throughout the generations, including the Rambam, Rashi, the Rif, R. Yosef Karo, R. Moshe Isserles, the Gaon of Vilna, the Chatam Sofer, and others. The portraits are numbered, and the names of the rabbis depicted are listed in the framed legends printed on each side of the poster. The portraits were painted by the Viennese artist Meir Kunstadt, and many of them, although intended as artist's renditions, became the accepted portraits of these rabbis, now widely taken for their actual likenesses.
The poster was printed for the Talmud Thora school in Vienna, and bears a printed dedication at the bottom, with a space for the name of the recipient of the poster, to be filled-in by hand: "To Mr ---, presented from the Board of the Talmud Thora Public School, Vienna".
The school, which was affiliated with the Orthodox community in Vienna, was founded in the 19th century, and was shut down only with the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany.
Approx. 70X50 cm. Good-fair condition. Marginal closed and open tears. Chips. Creases. Poster reinforced on verso with strips of paper to margins. Framed, 86.5X67 cm. Stains, damage and breaks to frame.
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