{"product_id":"surrealist-abstract-hebrew-aleph-pop-art-silkscreen-judaica-jewish-serigraph","title":"Surrealist Abstract Hebrew Aleph Pop Art Silkscreen Judaica Jewish Serigraph","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 15.0, W: 10.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbstract Hebrew Prints on heavy mould made paper from small edition of 15. there is a facing page of text in Hungarian folded over. Hard edged geometric abstract prints in color based on the Hebrew alphabet done in a calligraphy typeface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJozsef Jakovits, Hungarian (1909 - 1994) painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Representative of modern art trends of the 20th century . Member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Art (1993). József Jakovits was the leading sculptor among Hungary's Modernist art group, the European School, whose brilliant program of exhibitions, lectures, and publications lasted from 1945 until 1948, when Communist cultural czars crushed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe worked for the Hungarian Royal State Iron, Steel and Machine Works between 1935 and 1944. In 1945, he met the widow of Lajos Vajda, Júlia Vajda , a painter with whom he married, so he joined the European School , where he was engaged in sculpture and in 1948 at the European School XXXVI. On the occasion of his exhibition, he issued with Júlia Vajda. In 1948, his studio was taken away because of nationalization, at that time he destroyed many of his statues, and could not work until 1950. From 1950 he worked as a colleague of the State Theater of Bán (1950-55) and then of Kisfaludy Theater in Győr (1955-58). In 1951 he received a small room from the Puppet Theater, where he made sculptures again. Meanwhile, he became a member of the Fine Arts Foundation. From 1961 to 1965 he made his only public artwork from the artificial stone to Napora , which was set up in the garden of the Korányi TBC Medical Center in Budapest in 1965. (He made plans for four more public sculptures, but they were not implemented, so they were destroyed by the author). He lived in New York until 1965-1987, and began painting there. His painting themes are inspired by the mysticism of Kabbalah and calligraphy of Hebrew writing. He both met in New York, his paintings remained in America, but he took his calligraphic and mysticism approach into sculptures. In 1985 he received US citizenship, but in 1987 he was repatriated and lived in Budapest until his death. According to his own testimonies, painters influenced him ( Lajos Vajda , Max Ernst , Joan Miro , Pablo Picasso ), but above all the art of the prehistoric and natural peoples, the classical European culture felt a challenge, but also coped with its effects and incorporated it into his art. Some of his first work was also made completely abstract compositions of wire and statues of the spirit of organic life, growth, breakout, and his works in the spirit of Hans Arp works. The first period of his art (1945-48) was extremely productive, nearly one third of his statues were made at that time. His works also included playfulness and lightness ( Hármas fókák , 1946, Dolphins , 1947), but the tragic bitterness ( Child Murder , 1947) and grotesque hardness ( Hitler , 1946). His statues are characterized by a varied spatial play of asymmetry and forms. His career also included painting and drawings and the Revolutionary Series IX stands out. (1956), He also made photo collage montages, including Montage on a blue background IX, linoleum sections, screen prints. Six of the latter were published in an album, 70 numbered copies by the Corvina Publishing House in 1988. Inspired by Surrealism and Primitivism. His sculpture resonated with primal sexuality and spirituality, blending genders, animal and human characteristics, and sacred and secular themes. This stance was inherently political in conservative and communist Hungary, and Jakovits's overtly anti-totalitarian work was even more intolerable in Hungary. Grasping an opportunity to emigrate to the United States in 1965, Jakovits settled in New York City in 1965. He quoted Richard Huelsenbeck’s The Dada Drummer: “The artist must by necessity stand outside the social group.” Tidy and efficient, he lived ascetically, in poverty, in a 430-square-foot apartment in a public-housing complex on Water Street. To meet his modest needs of $175 per month—including his art supplies from Pearl Paint—he performed work provided by welfare three days every second week. He said a broad-hipped Jewish woman who worked for the city secured his survival package, which included being registered as a mentally challenged person eligible for aid. This surrogate status also inhibited him from seeking exhibitions and publicity. Despite his monasticism he had television—he watched, from the outside looking in. While America experienced its volatile 1960s, as 1968 came and went, Jakovits was absorbed in painting, having switched his main medium from sculpture. The chance encounter with the Hebrew primer in 1966 was a revelation to Jakovits. He turned from Surrealist symbolism to mysticism. He dedicated himself to absorbing and celebrating the esoteric knowledge of Kabala. For more than two decades, he rendered Hebrew letters and kabbalistic motifs, employing the flat colors, hard edges, and stenciled designs of Pop Art but in service of the sacred rather than the popular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJakovits is \"little-known today even in his native Hungary, except in intellectual and artistic circles, where he is hailed as Hungary's foremost Surrealist sculptor. In the Hungarian National Gallery he is labeled 'post-Surrealist.' Jakovits viewed himself as a Primitivist, declaring his main sources to be 'cave painting, the tribal art of primitive peoples, and the archaic periods of the great religious cultures'--including Judaic lettering and mysticism.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was an excellent book written about him by art historian Gary van Wyk titled József Jakovitz: Surrealist, Primitivist, Kabalist. some of this biographical material is drawn from the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndividual exhibitions :\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1948\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esculptures and pictures of Júlia Vajda, European School XXXVI, Üllői út 11-13, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1973 Júlia Vajda, Exhibition of Renée Kelemen, Chapel of Balatonboglár • New York, New York, Exhibition of his paintings, House of Living Judaism, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1980 • Exhibition Lajos Hatvany Museum, Hatvan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1983 •\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexhibition of sculptor, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1988 • Meeting with the artist, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1989 •\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraphic Exhibition of Sculptor, Gallery Erzsébetvárosi, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1989 • I am who I am, Gallery Fészek, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1993 • Revolutionary series 1947-1956-1957, ~ Academy Exhibition, Balassi Bookstore, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1995 • Ildikó Bálint, ~ and Endre Lukoviczky, Workshop Gallery, Szentendre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1996 • Memorial Exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest (cat.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1998 • Montage, Vintage Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2002 • Jewish Museum - New York Paintings 2009 • JAKI 100. József Jakovits was born a hundred years ago, 2B Gallery, Budapest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected group exhibitions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1946 • The Hungarian Art Exhibition of Abstract Art, Free Organization of Fine Arts, Budapest • Hungarian Fine Arts Movement Exhibition I, Ernst Museum, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1947 • New Worldview, Exhibition of the Gallery to the Four Worlds, Bookstore of Mistótfalusi • National Exhibition, Budapest Gallery, Budapest • Abstract Art II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1948 • 1948. New trends in Hungarian art, National Salon, Budapest • European School XXXIII. \"We ourselves\", Üllői út 11-13., Budapest • Exhibition of 90 artists, National Salon, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1949 • Hungarian Homes, Metropolitan Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1956 • Exhibition of 7 artists, Christian Museum, Esztergom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1957 • Spring Exhibition, Art Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1962 • Modern Architecture - Modern Fine Arts, Builders Club, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1966 • 125 Years of Hungarian Photography, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1969 • Szentendre Art, Csók Gallery, Székesfehérvár\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1972 • Hungarian Art, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1973 • European School. Hungarian art of the twentieth century, Csók Gallery, Székesfehérvár\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1975 • Today's Hungarian Artists, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1976 • Dreams, Myths and Imaginary Landscapes, ML Gallery of Fine Arts, New York • Exposure. Photo \/ art, Lajos Hatvany Museum, Hatvan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1977 • Pictures and sculptures from 30 years of Hungarian art, Budapest History Museum, Budapest • Hungarian Art 1945-49. Hungarian art of the twentieth century, Csók Gallery, Székesfehérvár\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1981 • Hungarian Art 1920-1970, Northeastern University Art Gallery, Boston • The fifties. Hungarian art of the twentieth century, Csók Gallery, Székesfehérvár\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1982 • The collage in Hungarian art, 1920-1965, Kassák Memorial Museum, Budapest • Memorial of Ernő Kállai, Óbuda Gallery, Budapest • Respect the homeland. Hungarian artists living in Hungary II. Exhibition, Art Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1983 • Rottenbiller Street 1, Revolutionary Museum, Szombathely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1984 • The (unknown) European School, Budapest Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1987 • The \"old\" avant-garde. Exhibition of 8 artists from Szentendre, Workshop Gallery, Szentendre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1988 • Formal forms II., Gallery Fészek, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1989 • Other, Ernst Museum, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1990 • VIII. International Small Sculpture Triennial, Art Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1991 • Sixties. New aspirations in Hungarian art, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1992 • Montage, St. Stephen's King Museum, Székesfehérvár\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1994 • Kisszobor '94, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1995 • New Works, Metropolitan Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1996 • My Museum. Selection from the Vass Collection, Ernst Museum, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1999 • Selection from the Levendel Collection, Metropolitan Gallery, Budapest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks in public collections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetropolitan Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanus Pannonius Museum, Pécs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKassák Memorial Museum, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHungarian National Gallery, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSzombathely Gallery, Szombathely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628336841002,"sku":"a_14160842S1","price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_A1B07C6960F54B4294D41705FCCC8478_master_1e17885d-925d-48b0-a1c1-f76c8a7d4cc9.jpg?v=1780509117","url":"https:\/\/lionsgallery.com\/products\/surrealist-abstract-hebrew-aleph-pop-art-silkscreen-judaica-jewish-serigraph","provider":"Lions Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}