Creator Bio
Gyula Pap
1899–1983
Born in Hungary, Gyula Pap moved with his family at age fourteen to Vienna. He studied art in Vienna and Budapest and metalwork at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture in Weimar from 1920 to 1923. He taught in Berlin from 1926 to 1933. With the rise of the Nazis, he moved to Budapest, where he lived until his death. He worked in several mediums: oil painting, typography, photography, textile design, graphic art, and industrial design.
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Seven-Branched Candelabrum
Menorahs with seven arms are traditionally displayed in synagogues as a reminder of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. This brass menorah by Gyula Pap also has seven arms but is strikingly different in…