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Cabbalistic Sphere
Luise Kaish
1975
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Atlanta-born sculptor and painter Luise Kaish is known especially for her bronze and steel sculptures. Among her many honors and awards are a Tiffany Foundation grant (1951), a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship (1959), and a Rome Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Rome (1970). Kaish’s work included commissions from synagogues and churches, including arks and ark doors. She is a professor emerita of sculpture at Columbia University.
[ . . . ] I have always felt it as a particular honor that a man of such outstanding importance as Theodor Herzl was the first to champion me publicly from his exposed and therefore responsible…
Mathias Goeritz began his Messages series in the late 1950s and continued adding to it until the end of his career. He set out to create a modernist religious art. Works in the series often referred…
This painting of a service at the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam is similar to a painting for which Jacques-Émile-Edouard Brandon received a medal at the Paris Salon of 1867. Both are views of the…