Six colored lithographs in the original cardboard folder Each lithograph signed and dated 1927 in the plate or below the image by the artist Greta Wolf-Krakauer

SIX LITHOGRAPHS
1. Tents in Beit Alpha
2. Beit Alpha from Above
3. The Emek Jezreel
4. Nahalal
5. A Sycamore in Tel-Yoseph
6. Kindergarten in Nahalal

Keren Hayesod
Jerusalem, Art Printers “Graphica”, 1927.
Brown cardboard folder with cloth spine, Black lettering on front, oblong folio (13.5 inches tall), 1 text leaf, 6 color lithographs on heavy paper printed on one side only.

Sheet Dimensions: 16 x 13.25 inches
Image Dimensions: 12 x 9.4 inches

Note 1. Five of the plates have the artist’s signature below the image. They appear to be pencil signed but I believe that they are reproduced rather than being hand signed by the artist. This conclusion is based on comparison with the signature on another copy of the same lithograph. The signatures and their locations on the two copies are identical.

Note 2. The folder is damaged but the Contents are complete.

Scarce complete suite.

Grete Wolf Krakauer née Wolf (1890–1970) was an Austrian-Israeli painter.
Grete Wolf Krakauer was born in Witkowitz, Moravia, on December 10, 1890, to a relatively assimilated, middle class Jewish family. One year later, her family moved to Vienna, where she received a modern education and was introduced to the latest ideas in art and philosophy, such as socialism and psychoanalysis. She studied art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She went on to travel and study with Johannes Itten, Albert Weisgerber and Adolf Hölzel. Her first solo exhibition was at the Kunstsalon Heller in Vienna in 1913, just before World War I began. She joined an avant-garde group of artists, the Bund der Geistig, and met her future husband, the architect and painter, Leopold Krakauer. She became known for her portraits, painting leading figures in Red Vienna, and her work was included in the 1922 Venice Biennale]

In 1924, her husband moved to Jerusalem and she followed, along with their daughter Trude, a few months later. Krakauer was active in art circles in the Land of Israel, and presented at various exhibitions, including at David’s Citadel in 1926. She also she continued to develop her career in Europe exhibiting her work there and traveling there frequently until rising anti-Semitism made this impossible in 1932. Almost her entire family was murdered in the Holocaust and she only returned to Europe once after 1932.

In pre-state Israel (the Yishuv), Zionist organizations such as the Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod commissioned paintings from Wolf Krakauer of pioneering settlements. She also created documentary sketches of the Peel Commission proceedings and established the Marionette Theatre, a puppet theater. She traveled widely and her work was exhibited in Australia, South Africa, and Thailand as well as in Jerusalem. In 1969, Wolf Krakauer was the recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for Painting and Sculpture. She died in 1970 in Jerusalem.

Legacy
Wolf Krakauer was included in the 2017 exhibition The Better Half: Jewish Women Artists Before 1938 at the Museum Dorotheergasse. Wolf Krakauer was the subject of a 2018 retrospective, Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem at the Mishkan Museum of Art.[6] Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

Her estate was preserved by her daughter, Prof. Trude Dothan, in her home in Jerusalem. She was restored to the canon of Israeli art after decades of oblivion in the wake of Smadar Sheffi’s doctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Gannit Ankori, submitted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2011. Part of the research was the basis for the exhibition Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem, at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, in 2018, curated by Dr. Smadar Sheffi.

Keren Hayesod was established at the World Zionist Congress in London on July 7–24, 1920 to provide the Zionist movement with resources needed to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It came in response to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which stated that "His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" – turning the ages-old dream of the return to the Land of Israel into a politically feasible goal.

Keren Hayesod established fundraising organizations around the world. Early leaders included Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein and Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

During the 1920s, Keren Hayesod began to lay the groundwork for a Jewish national home and helped raise funds to establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bank Hapoalim and various physical projects. In 1926, Keren Hayesod relocated its headquarters from London to Jerusalem. With the establishment of the Jewish Agency in 1929, Keren Hayesod became its fundraising arm while continuing its own wide-ranging activities.

CONDITION: The folder is heavily damaged with large pieces broken off and missing from the front board, heavy wear and chipping at edges of both boards, repaired cracks on front board, some tearing of spine fabric, soil on rear pastedown.
The Contents are complete.
The text leaf has some wear and has a very short closed tear at the edges, some soil at the fore margin.
The six lithographs have  wide margins, and intact and clean images. Some of the margins a lightly sunned.

No.1 has a tiny chipped corner and a lightly creased corner.
No. 3. has light soil at the lower margin.
No 6. has two tiny chips at the upper edge.