Creator Bio
Hermann Struck
1876–1944
The master etcher Hermann Struck was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Berlin and remained an observant Jew throughout his life. An active Zionist from an early age, he moved to Palestine in 1922 and spent the rest of his life there. He was known for his portraits of European cultural figures and for his landscapes and character studies of traditional Jews, both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Yemenite Jew
Struck taught at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where Yemenite Jews were popular subjects. Many new Jewish arrivals in Palestine, interested in creating a Jewish cultural revival, viewed…
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Everyone Who Mourns Jerusalem Reaps Its Joy (at the Wailing Wall)
The title of this etching comes from the inscription that appears on the lower left. The picture depicts a Hasidic Jew in Jerusalem praying at the Western Wall, the remnant of the Second Temple that…