Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert

Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert ( born October 7, 1900 in Hildesheim, † November 6, 1981 in New York City ) was a Jewish designers, sculptors and artisans German origin.

Life

Wolpert grew up in a traditional Jewish family. From 1916 to 1920 he studied sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Frankfurt am Main. Between 1925 and 1928 he studied with Leo Horowitz, a representative of the Bauhaus style, the artistic treatment of metals. Wolpert 1930 created his first sacred work, a Seder plate. In 1933 he emigrated to Palestine, where he became in 1935 a professor at the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem.

Wolpert was one of the most influential designers of sacred Jewish objects and created in the next few decades, countless public works. 1948 gave the first Israeli president, Chaim Weizmann, designed by Wolpert Torah scrolls as a gift to Harry S. Truman. Furthermore, Wolpert also designed the entrance area of ​​the Jewish Chapel of the John F. Kennedy Airport and the Jewish prayer area of the United States Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs. His works are distinguished by their modern style, clean geometric shapes and the absence of ornamentation.

In 1956 Wolpert Director of Tobe Pascher Workshop at the Jewish Museum ( NYC ), a device for religious Jewish artists and their students. He was also a professor at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. In 1976 he received an honorary doctorate from the Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago. In the same year the Jewish Museum organized a major retrospective of his work.

Wolpert's works are, inter alia, represented in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh ( Penn. ) and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. His estate is located in the Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History, New York.