Seven-Branched Candelabrum

Gyula Pap

1922

Seven-branched candelabrum.
Please login or register for free access to Posen Library
Register
Already have an account?
Engage with this Source

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.

You may also like

Limestone, goblet-shaped container with a footed base, a midsection with festoon pattern, and a deep bowl with checkerboard pattern on rim.
Tooltip info icon

Goblet-shaped Cosmetic Container

This goblet-shaped cosmetic container of white limestone is from Hazor. The footed base, midsection with festoon pattern, and deep bowl with upper frieze of alternating checkerboard pattern form three…
View Source
Embroidered curtain of columns with crowns on left and right sides and decorative floral motifs throughout, and Hebrew text in top center.
Tooltip info icon

Torah Curtain

This Torah curtain was donated to the Altneuschul (Staranova Synagogue) in Prague in 1602 by Natan ben Issachar (called Karpel Zaks), and Hadassi bat Moses, who commissioned it, as attested to by its…
View Source