Aharon Shaul Schur

Aharon Shaul Schur | Toward a Hebraic Portraiture | Portrait Time II

Curator: Ron Bartosh
Feb. 29, 2020 - Aug. 22, 2020

Aharon Shaul Schur (1864–1945) was born in the city of Mogilev in Belarus. As a child, he was instructed in the Torah in a heder, as befitting the son of a rabbi and kosher butcher, and it was there that his artistic talent became apparent. At the age of eighteen, he traveled to Vilnius, and began his artistic education, which he continued in Vienna and Berlin, where he joined the circles of Jewish artists. In 1913, the Berlin committee of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem approached Schur and suggested that he immigrate to Palestine to establish a department of miniature painting at the school. Although he was 49 years old and a family man, Schur, who had been a staunch Zionist since his student days, accepted the invitation without hesitation. On the Passover of that year his ship docked at the port of Jaffa, and he settled with his family in Jerusalem.

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