1971 ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DAY POSTER OFFICIAL ORIGINAL DESIGNED BY KOPEL GURWIN

This is a very rare Israel Independence Day official poster designed by Bezalel artist Kopel Gurwin. This poster was issued in 1971 to celebrate Israel 23rd Independence Day. This original poster measured: 38x25 inch, 95x64 cm. Very good condition.

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Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is Israel's national school of art, founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz. It is named for the Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri (Hebrew: בְּצַלְאֵל בֶּן־אוּרִי), who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle (Exodus 35:30). The Bezalel School was founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz. Theodor Herzl and the early Zionists believed in the creation of a national style of art blending classical Jewish/Middle Eastern and European traditions. The teachers of Bezalel developed a distinctive school of art, known as the Bezalel school, which portrayed Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by the European jugendstil (art nouveau) and traditional Persian and Syrian art. The artists blended "varied strands of surroundings, tradition and innovation," in paintings and craft objects that invokes "biblical themes, Islamic design and European traditions," in their effort to "carve out a distinctive style of Jewish art" for the new nation they intended to build in the ancient Jewish homeland. The Bezalel School produced decorative art objects in a wide range of media: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric. While the artists and designers were Western-trained, the craftsmen were often members of the Yemenite Jewish community, which has a long tradition of working in precious metals. Silver and goldsmithing had been traditional Jewish occupations in Yemen. Yemenite immigrants were also frequent subjects of Bezalel school artists. Leading artists of the school include Meir Gur Aryeh, Ze'ev Raban, Shmuel Ben David, Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, Ze'ev Ben-Tzvi, Jacob Eisenberg, Jacob Pins, Jacob Steinhardt, and Hermann Struck In 1912, the school had only one female student, Marousia (Miriam) Nissenholtz, who used the pseudonym Chad Gadya.The school closed down in 1929 in the wake of economic difficulties, but reopened in 1935, attracting many teachers and students from Germany, many of them from the Bauhaus school shut down by the Nazis. Jacob Steinhardt was a painter and woodcut artist. He was born in Zerkow (engl. Tserkov, pl. Żerków) in Posen, a former Province of Prussia. During the World War I he was a soldier in Poland and Lithuania. In Eastern Europe he came in contact with the Eastern Jewish religion and culture which deeply impressed him. It took great influence on his life and work. After his immigration to Palestine in 1933, he opened an art school in Jerusalem. He was Chairman of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and also the Director of that school from 1953 till 1957. In 1966, Steinhardt became an honorary citizen of Israel. A year later, he painted his last self-portrait. He died on the 11th of February in 1968 at Nahariya. One of Steinhardts disciples was the artist Jacob Pins (January 17, 1917 Höxter). Der Künstler Jakob Steinhardt wurde 1887 in Zerkow, einer Kleinstadt in der damals preußischen Provinz Posen, geboren. Seine Eltern schickten ihn auf ein Gymnasium in Berlin, wo Steinhardt bei Verwandten unterkam. Während seiner Schullaufbahn verlor der Künstler mit 13 Jahren seinen Vater. Nach Abschluss der Gymnasialzeit (1906) kehrte Jakob Steinhardt in seine Heimatstadt zurück und erhielt durch Vermittlung des Direktors des Posener Museums ein Stipendium, mit Hilfe dessen er acht Jahre bis zum Beginn des 1. Weltkrieges studieren konnte. Bis 1914 reiste Jakob Steinhardt durch Europa und erweiterte seine Kunstkenntnisse, lernte auch neue Künstler kennen und gründete die Gruppe "Die Pathetiker". In den Kriegsjahren kam er als Soldat in Polen und Litauen mit der (ost-)jüdischen Religion und Kultur in Berührung, die tiefen Eindruck auf ihn machte und großen Einfluss auf sein weiteres Leben haben sollte. 1917, zum Ende des 1. Weltkrieges, erfolgte eine Ausstellung in der Berliner Secession seiner Kriegszeichnungen, die ein großer Erfolg wurde. Später entdeckt der Künstler die Technik des Holzschnitts, den er als wichtiges künstlerisches Ausdrucksmittel beibehielt. 1922 heiratete Steinhardt Minni Gumpert, worauf ein Jahr später die Tochter Josefa zur Welt kam. Jakob Steinhardt lebte weiterhin in Berlin, malte Stadtansichten, daneben entstanden auch noch graphische Mappenwerke und Buchillustrationen. Jacob Steinhardt mit Tocher Josepha und ihren Freunden, ca. 1942 1925 reiste Steinhardts nach Palästina, wohin er 1933 mit seiner Familie flüchten musste. Im Laufe des 2. Weltkrieges gab der Künstler seine Radiertechnik auf und widmete sich dem Holzschnitt. 1949 wurde er Leiter der Graphischen Klasse der Bezalel Kunstschule, die er von 1953-1957 auch führte. Ab 1955 wurde Steinhardt durch seine Ausstellungen weltweit bekannt und bekam zahlreiche Preise. 1966 wurde Steinhardt israelischer Ehrenbürger. Ein Jahr darauf malte er sein letztes Selbstportrait und starb am 11. Februar 1968 in Nahariya. Zu den Schülern von Jakob Steinhardt gehört Jacob Pins (17. Januar 1917 Höxter). Er stiftete seiner Geburtsstadt 2003 seinen Jacob Steinhardt (1887–1968) (Hebrew: יעקב שטיינהרדט‎) was an Israeli painter and woodcut artist. Jacob Steinhardt was born in Żerków, Germany (now Poland). He attended the School of Art in Berlin in 1906, then studied painting with Louis Corinth and engraving with Hermann Struck in 1907. From 1908 to 1910 he lived in Paris, where he associated with Henri Matisse and Théophile Steinlen, and in 1911 he was in Italy. When World War I broke out, he enlisted in the German army, and served on the Eastern Front in Poland and Lithuania, and then in Macedonia. After the war, he returned to Berlin, and in 1922 married Minni Gumpert. They immigrated to Palestine in 1933, after he was harassed by the German police, dominated by the Nazis who recently came to power. Steinhardt died in 1968. He is buried in Nahariya. Jacob Steinhardt worked mainly in woodcuts depicting biblical and Jewish subjects. He participated in the Berlin Secession and founded the Pathetiker Group. He was a member of the Bezalel school group. In 1934, Steinhardt opened an art school in Jerusalem. In 1948, he became Chairman of the Graphics Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He served as director of the school in 1954-1957 The Jewish Museum Berlin houses the largest Steinhardt collection in the world, including numerous graphic artworks and unpublished documents donated by Josefa Bar-On Steinhardt, the artist's daughter. The museum owns paintings, several hundred print graphics, and a collection of books illustrated by the artist. Chaim Weizmann was born in Motol, Russia in 1874. He received his education in biochemistry in Switzerland and Germany Already in Geneva, he became active in the Zionist movement. In 1905 he moved to England, and was elected to the General Zionist Council.Weizmann's scientific assistance to the Allied forces in World War I brought him into close contact with British leaders, enabling him to play a key role in the issuing of the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917 ­­ in which Britain committed itself to the establishment of a Jewish home in Palestine.In 1918, Weizmann was appointed head of the Zionist Commission sent to Palestine by the British government to advise on the future development of the country. There, he laid the foundation stone of the Hebrew University. That same year Weizmann met in Aqaba with Emir Feisal, son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, the leader of the Arab movement, to discuss prospects of reaching an understanding on the establishment of independent Arab and Jewish states.Shortly after, Weizmann led the Zionist delegation to the Peace Conference at Versailles, and in 1920 became the president of the World Zionist Organization (WZO). He headed the Jewish Agency which was established in 1929.In the 1930's, Weizmann laid the foundations of the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in Rehovot, later to become the Weizmann Institute, a driving force behind Israel's scientific research. In 1937, he made his home in Rehovot.Chaim Weizmann again served as President of the WZO from 1935-1946. During the years that led up to World War II he invested much effort in establishing the Jewish Brigade. He also tried, unsuccessfully, to prevent the issuing in 1939 of the White Paper, which in effect halted Jewish immigration to Palestine.After the end of World War II, Weizmann was instrumental in the adoption of the Partition Plan by the United Nations on November 29, 1947, and in the recognition of Israel by the United States.With the declaration of the State of Israel, Weizmann was chosen to serve as the first President of Israel. This role he filled until his death in 1952. Chaim Weizmann was Russia born Jew, and later he spent several years in Switzerland. In 1904 he settled in England, at the age of thirty, where he lectured in the University of Manchester chemistry department. During WW I, he was credited with developing a method of producing acetone from maize; which was needed for the production of artillery shells, and in 1917 he was credited with securing a promise from the British to build a "Jewish National Home" in Palestine, (better known as the Balfour Declaration). Weizmann was one of the three Zionist leaders (along with Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion) most responsible for turning Zionism into reality. Soon after Theodor Herzl's death in 1904 (the father of Zionism), Weizmann was becoming a prominent figure in the Zionist movement, having acquired a reputation as a powerful public speaker, until the mid-1930s. As the Zionist movement center of gravity shifted from Europe to Palestine in the late 1930s-early 1940s, Weizmann played a secondary role behind David Ben-Gurion, who led the movement until 1962. Soon after the conclusion of the 1948, and the establishment of the "Jewish state" he became first Israeli President. Weizmann was a very patient and savvy politician, who knew how to patiently lobby for Zionism in Europe, specially among the British whom he knew very well how to charm and court. He is credited with clarifying Herzl's vision of Zionism in the West and many Western Jewish communities. Weizmann's style of management was almost the exact opposite of Ben-Gurion's, who became militant, rigid, and uncompromising after the Nazis rose to power in Germany. As evidence of the Nazi atrocities was surfacing, Zionists and Jews in general advocated the creation of a "Jewish state" as soon as WWII ended, and the slogan "never again" became their motto. All of these factors pushed Weizmann to the background, and the Israeli Hawks dominated the Israeli political spectrum to the present day.