Six lithographs of great rabbis of European Jewry drawn by Hermann Struck, among them: Rabbi Akiva Eiger, Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, the Vilna Gaon. Berlin, c. 1930.
Lithographic printing on paper, without a frame. 21×14 cm. Titles in German. Printed by Verlag Judische Presse, Berlin.
*Rabbi Akiva Eiger. * Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines. * Rabbi Eliyahu, the Vilna Gaon. *Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher. *Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor. *Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik ‘Der Brisker Rav’.
Hermann Struck (1876-1944) was a German-Jewish artist and etcher. He was born to an Orthodox family in Berlin, became a Zionist and one of the founders of the Mizrachi, and learned in the Art Academy of Berlin and Holland. Among his students were Chagall, Max Liebermann, and Josef Israels. He immigrated to Israel in 1922.
Very fine condition.