Bronze cast relief depicts a Rebbe with his Chassid studying Torah from a Sefer. On a background of purple felt with encircled by a bronze frame with surrounding fleur de-lis scrolling. Top of frame is pierced with a hole made to hang on a wall in your home.
Signed bottom right.
Good condition.
23cm x 18.5cm
Frank Meisler (1925 – 2018) was an Israeli architect and sculptor. He was born into a Jewish family in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), he was evacuated by the Kindertransport in August 1939, travelling with other Jewish children via Berlin to the Netherlands and then to Liverpool Street station in London. His parents were later murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was raised by an aunt, who lived in London. He attended school in Harrow, and then did national service in the Royal Air Force. He studied architecture at the University of Manchester, and was involved in the construction of the Heathrow Airport.
He moved to Israel in the late 50's, where he later opened a workshop and gallery in the Old City of Jaffa. he also erected public sculptures including a memorial to Ben Gurion in Israel, Eternal Kiev in Kiev, and a series of Kindertransport memorials.
He also designed the interior of the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue in Moscow, and sculptures for Russia's National War Memorial.
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