Micha Ullman is one of Israel’s leading sculptors, known for his politically oriented land art and conceptual art projects, many of which involve trenches, holes, and other elements situated underground. An example is Library, an installation in Berlin on the site where a Nazi book-burning took place in 1933. Ullman represented Israel at the Venice Art Biennale in 1980 and the São Paolo Biennale in 1989. Since 1991, he has held a professorship at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart and is a member of the Berlin Academy of Art. He lives in Israel and Germany.
This silver alms plate was likely used to collect donations in a synagogue. In the center is a boat, meant to represent Noah’s ark, a common image on Jewish alms containers. The Hebrew word for…
This silver Torah pointer from Yemen is inscribed in Hebrew: “[The teaching of the Lord is perfect, renewing life; the decrees of the Lord are enduring, making the simple wise;] the precepts of the…
To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…