Hermann Struck

Hermann Struck ( with Hebrew name Chaim Aaron ben David, born March 6, 1876 in Berlin, † January 11, 1944 in Haifa ) was a German - Jewish painter, etcher and lithographer.

Life

Hermann Struck, son of the Berlin businessman David Struck and Henriette Hanff, received his education at the Berlin Academy of Art. He is the author of the work, the art of etching (1908 ) and brought this art among other things, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Joseph Budko and Lesser Ury at. He created, among other portraits by Henrik Ibsen, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, and Oscar Wilde.

During World War II he served as an adviser for Jewish affairs in the Eastern Command of the German army in those parts of the Russian Empire, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus are now. From an encounter with Arnold Zweig in Lithuania ( 1915) the book The Eastern Jewish countenance was born. In a lively exchange he had with fellow artist Ernst Oppler, in the estate of a total of 43 letters have been preserved.

As an orthodox Jew and committed Zionist, he was among the founders of the Mizrachi movement of religious Zionism. After a first visit to Palestine in 1903, he emigrated to Palestine in 1923, was a member of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and helped found the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Struck is particularly known for his etchings and lithographs.