Isidor Ascheim

Isidor Ascheim (1891-1968) (variant names Isidor Aschheim, Izidor Aschheim) was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker born in Posen (Poznań), Prussia (present-day Poland) in 1891.

Ascheim was raised in an Orthodox family and served during World War I. He immigrated to Palestine in 1940 and settled in Jerusalem. During the years 1919-23, Ascheim studied under the German Expressionist Otto Mueller in Breslau and was influenced by Erich Heckel of the Die Brücke (The Bridge) group. In Israel, Ascheim became a teacher at the renowned Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, and he was nominated its director for a number of years. Ascheim won the Dizengoff Prize in 1951, the Jerusalem Prize for Art in 1955, and participated in the 1956 Venice Biennale. He was married to the Israeli painter Margot Lange-Ascheim.

Ascheim "belongs to a generation of artists whose whole repertoire is based on a direct impression of nature, life and the human form. His oeuvre represents a continuous connection with nature and the human figure, usually executed with a dark palette, the legacy of his German Expressionist roots."

elected collections

* "Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco"
* "Israel Museum", Jerusalem

References

* "Isidor Aschheim: Drawings & Prints" [Izidor Ashhaim: rishumim ve-hedpesim] . Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1966.
* Talpir, Gabriel. "100 Artists in Israel". Tel-Aviv: Gazith Art Publishing, 1971.

External links

* [http://www.imj.org.il/eng/resources/israeli-ac/ Israeli Art Centre] (Israel Museum, Jerusalem - [http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/sname2_a.asp?artist=1307&list=A Isidor Ascheim] )
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/612554/isidor-aschheim.html Artnet.com] (Isidor Aschheim)