Eliezer-Zusman of Brody : the early modern synagogue painter and his world / by Zvi Orgad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orgad, Zvi, 1969- author.

Series:

Jews, Judaism, and the Arts ; 2.

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

Jews, Judaism, and the arts ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mural painting and decoration, German.

Synagogue art.

Sussmann, Eliezer, active 1730-1740.

Sussmann, Eliezer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

The book Eliezer-Zusman of Brody: The Early Modern Synagogue Painter and His World discusses the Jewish cultural and artistic migration from Eastern Europe to German lands in the first half of the eighteenth century. Its case study is the synagogue painter Eliezer-Zusman of Brody, who painted several synagogues in the Franconia area, today in southern Germany. By choosing this case study, the book highlights hitherto neglected aspects of the life and work methods of religious artisans in Eastern and Central Europe in the early modern period. The focus on synagogue paintings in Franconia presents an unexpected intensive scene of synagogue painters in the periphery of Jewish Ashkenazi existence.

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Plates

1 The Painter Eliezer-Zusman of Brody

1 Signature Formulas

2 Origin and Vocational Training

3 Status and Personal Life

4 Itinerary

2 Eliezer-Zusman at Work

1 Underpainting, Binding Materials, and Pigments

2 Preparation of the Substrate and Color Laying Order

3 Copying Models

4 Inscriptions

5 Planning and Layout of Compositions

6 Textual Sources of Painting Themes

3 Eliezer-Zusman’s Workshop—the Unterlimpurg and Steinbach Synagogues

3 Copying Visual Models: Bechhofen and Horb Synagogues

4 Shared Visual Models: Kirchheim Synagogue

5 Copying Visual Models: Miscellanea

6 Inscriptions

7 Planning and Layout of the Composition

8 Textual Sources of Painting Themes

9 Re-examination: The Attribution of the Unterlimpurg and Steinbach synagogue Paintings to Eliezer-Zusman

4 Eliezer-Zusman’s Workshop—the Colmberg Synagogue

1 Underpainting

2 Copying Models

3 Consistent Placement of Motifs within the Decoration

4 Re-examination: The Attribution of the Colmberg Synagogue Paintings to Eliezer-Zusman

5 Continuing the Tradition of Synagogue Interior Paintings in Southern Germany and Alsace in the Eighteenth Century

1 The Georgensgmünd Synagogue

2 The Odenbach Synagogue

3 The Traenheim Synagogue

4 The Horkheim Synagogue

5 Summary

Epilogue

Bibliography

Plates

Index of Names

Index of Places.

Notes:

The book Eliezer-Zusman of Brody: The Early Modern Synagogue Painter and His World focuses on the work methods of the synagogue painter Eliezer-Zusman of Brody, as a case study of Jewish cultural and artistic migration from Eastern Europe to German lands.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Orgad, Zvi Eliezer-Zusman of Brody

ISBN:

9789004502543

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004502543 DOI