Weil Shraga
Weil Shraga
S-7 The Huppa
$400
24.5 inches wide x 18.5 Inches high 62 cm wide x 47 cm high Serigraph 1963 Edition 150
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Above the Hupah (the wedding canopy) the words from the marriage ceremony “Behold thou art made holy unto me” are inscribed. The four corners of the canopy are supported by decorated poles held by celebrants. The bride and groom are represented by thrones inscribed with the following quotation from The Song of Songs (III 9-11): “King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon. He made pillars of silver, the top of gold, the seat of purple, the inside thereof being inlaid of love, from the daughters of Jerusalem. Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon King Solomon, even upon the crown with which his mother has crowned him on the day of his wedding and on the day of supreme joy.”
Shraga Weil was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1918 to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants. His father, a building engineer, who was an amateur painter, sent him to study with a local sculptor and then to the Prague School of Art.
He produced his first graphic works during World War II, part of which he spent as a prisoner. After the war, Weil sailed for Israel on an illegal immigrant ship, eventually arriving in the new country in 1947 and becoming a member of Kibbutz Haogen, where he has been living ever since.
In 1954 Weil spent some time studying murals and graphic techniques at the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris and Ravenna mosaics with Prof. Severinl.
Shraga Weil’s works have been exhibited in the United States, South America, Canada, Australia, France, the USSR, Switzerland, and in the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, in Lugano. In 1959, Weil was awarded Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Art Prize
Weil Shraga
S-8 Massada
$500
19.75 Inches wide x 27.5 Inches high 50 cm wide x 70 cm high Serigraph 1965
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Shraga Weil was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1918 to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants. His father, a building engineer, who was an amateur painter, sent him to study with a local sculptor and then to the Prague School of Art.
He produced his first graphic works during World War II, part of which he spent as a prisoner. After the war, Weil sailed for Israel on an illegal immigrant ship, eventually arriving in the new country in 1947 and becoming a member of Kibbutz Haogen, where he has been living ever since.
In 1954 Weil spent some time studying murals and graphic techniques at the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris and Ravenna mosaics with Prof. Severinl.
Shraga Weil’s works have been exhibited in the United States, South America, Canada, Australia, France, the USSR, Switzerland, and in the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, in Lugano. In 1959, Weil was awarded Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Art Prize
Weil Shraga
S-9 Festival of Spring
$400
19.75 Inches wide x 27.5 Inches high 50 cm wide x 70 cm high Serigraph 1966 Edition 150
Shipping & Handling: $30
The visual foundation of this lithograph is the scribe’s table, whose beams and stanchions firmly support not only the opened manuscript at center, but the nest of eggs, bird, fruit, and the twelve-stoned shield of the high priest, all familiar objects from other Weil works. The formally arranged composition suggests not so much a “festival” as a “ritual” of spring. For there is no bursting forth of greenery or flowers; rather, it is a quiet affirmation of the sure knowledge of the order of things – the confidence that spring must follow winter as surely as chicks must hatch from eggs.
Shraga Weil was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1918 to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants. His father, a building engineer, who was an amateur painter, sent him to study with a local sculptor and then to the Prague School of Art.
He produced his first graphic works during World War II, part of which he spent as a prisoner. After the war, Weil sailed for Israel on an illegal immigrant ship, eventually arriving in the new country in 1947 and becoming a member of Kibbutz Haogen, where he has been living ever since.
In 1954 Weil spent some time studying murals and graphic techniques at the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris and Ravenna mosaics with Prof. Severinl.
Shraga Weil’s works have been exhibited in the United States, South America, Canada, Australia, France, the USSR, Switzerland, and in the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, in Lugano. In 1959, Weil was awarded Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Art Prize
Weil Shraga
S-10 The Dove and the Ram
$400
19.75 Inches wide x 25.5 Inches high 50 cm wide x 65 Cm high Serigraph 1966
Shipping & Handling: $30
The theme of the sacrificial ram, caught in a thicket is a familiar one in Weil’s works. Combining the dove of hope with the ram of sacrifice, the artist yields a visual statement of tenderness and strength. The ram’s horns are used as the central structural focus for the work, while between them Weil has combined aleph, yud and lamed (ayil, meaning ram) to denote its importance.
Shraga Weil was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1918 to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants. His father, a building engineer, who was an amateur painter, sent him to study with a local sculptor and then to the Prague School of Art.
He produced his first graphic works during World War II, part of which he spent as a prisoner. After the war, Weil sailed for Israel on an illegal immigrant ship, eventually arriving in the new country in 1947 and becoming a member of Kibbutz Haogen, where he has been living ever since.
In 1954 Weil spent some time studying murals and graphic techniques at the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris and Ravenna mosaics with Prof. Severinl.
Shraga Weil’s works have been exhibited in the United States, South America, Canada, Australia, France, the USSR, Switzerland, and in the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, in Lugano. In 1959, Weil was awarded Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Art Prize
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