Lecturers
STUDENT'S RESEARCH
The project of Natalya Zolotar
Ruth Schloss
Drawing lines between German heritage and Israeli cultural sphere
A case study Natalya Zolotar
The artist Ruth Schloss was born in Nuremberg, Germany and immigrated to Israel in 1937. Immigration from Germany in the 1930s brought with it a new cultural nuance to Palestine-Israel. The “Yekkes” (The German immigrants’ nickname) retained aspects of their former life and their German cultural identity. My research will explore: What are the affinities, the relations, and the influences of Cultural German Heritage on Schloss’s art? How much “Germany and Stuttgart” are in “Israel and Tel-Aviv”, and what can we learn about wandering of the cultural German ideas and heritage and their translation into Israeli cultural sphere?


PHOTOS: The painter and illustrator Ruth Schloss (© All rights reserved to Shalom Bar Tal); Woman Cooking, 1950-1960 (?), Ink on paper, Private collection (© Estate of the artist); Self Portrait, 1990,Acrylic on canvas(© Estate of the artist)
STUDENT'S RESEARCH
The project of Natalya Zolotar
Ruth Schloss
Drawing lines between German heritage and Israeli cultural sphere
A case study Natalya Zolotar
The artist Ruth Schloss was born in Nuremberg, Germany and immigrated to Israel in 1937. Immigration from Germany in the 1930s brought with it a new cultural nuance to Palestine-Israel. The “Yekkes” (The German immigrants’ nickname) retained aspects of their former life and their German cultural identity. My research will explore: What are the affinities, the relations, and the influences of Cultural German Heritage on Schloss’s art? How much “Germany and Stuttgart” are in “Israel and Tel-Aviv”, and what can we learn about wandering of the cultural German ideas and heritage and their translation into Israeli cultural sphere?


PHOTOS: The painter and illustrator Ruth Schloss (© All rights reserved to Shalom Bar Tal); Woman Cooking, 1950-1960 (?), Ink on paper, Private collection (© Estate of the artist); Self Portrait, 1990,Acrylic on canvas(© Estate of the artist)
STUDENT'S RESEARCH
The project of Natalya Zolotar
Ruth Schloss
Drawing lines between German heritage and Israeli cultural sphere
A case study Natalya Zolotar
The artist Ruth Schloss was born in Nuremberg, Germany and immigrated to Israel in 1937. Immigration from Germany in the 1930s brought with it a new cultural nuance to Palestine-Israel. The “Yekkes” (The German immigrants’ nickname) retained aspects of their former life and their German cultural identity. My research will explore: What are the affinities, the relations, and the influences of Cultural German Heritage on Schloss’s art? How much “Germany and Stuttgart” are in “Israel and Tel-Aviv”, and what can we learn about wandering of the cultural German ideas and heritage and their translation into Israeli cultural sphere?


PHOTOS: The painter and illustrator Ruth Schloss (© All rights reserved to Shalom Bar Tal); Woman Cooking, 1950-1960 (?), Ink on paper, Private collection (© Estate of the artist); Self Portrait, 1990,Acrylic on canvas(© Estate of the artist)









STUDENT'S RESEARCH
Zeev Rechter’s Architecture
Immigration and Wandering of Modern Architectural Ideas and Aesthetics from Europe to Palestine-Israel
A case study by Barak Ravitz
The “International Style” and “Brutalism” were young Israel’s architectural foundations. Jewish architects fled to Palestine before and during the Second World War carrying with them fresh modernist planning and aesthetic principles and acting as “agents” of European (foreign) cultural heritage. I examine the act of a nation state embracing foreign visual character.
My research focuses on the architect Zeev Rechter and on two of his works; the residential edifice called The Engel House, built on Rothschild Boulevard in 1933, and on the Israeli pavilion in the Biennale Gardens of Venice, Italy, built in 1952. My research explores what was fully adopted from the modernist ideals, what was left aside, and what underwent alterations on its way to Israel.
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PHOTOS: The Engel House (© All rights reserved to Barak Ravitz); The Engel House1(Copyright and source: Wikimedia commons, copyright statue, public domain); The Engel House2 (Copyright and source: Wikipedia, copyright statue, public domain); The Israeli pavilion (Copyright and source: Wikipedia, copyright statue, public domain)