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LOT 40:
Kiddush Cup for Chassidim by Zelig Segal. Israel, 1982
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Kiddush Cup for Chassidim by Zelig Segal. Israel, 1982
Displayed at the Bedibur Echad Exhibition of the Israel Museum in 1992 and appeared in its catalog.
Kiddush cup made of silver-plated metal, handmade by the important Bezalel artist Zelig Segal.
Even when Segal addresses the foundations of tradition and ritual custom he does so using his own original methods. In his design of the Kiddush cup, Segal considered the way the cup was held by Chassidim - from below, inside the palm, and made it comfortable to hold.
"Segal's inventiveness is relentless. His works continuously surprise us with their formal and functional inventiveness".
Zelig Segal: an Israeli designer, sculptor and Judaica artist.
Zelig was born in Jerusalem in 1933 and grew up in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood. His mother was the midwife of the Yishuv of Hebron and his father, a Melamed of the Etz Chaim Talmud Torah of the Mazkeret Moshe neighborhood. In his youth, he studied in a Cheider and later, at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva and the Torat Emet Yeshiva of Chabad.
When he was 16, assisted by a scholarship he received from David Ben Gurion, Segal began studying at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and during the years 1949-1954, studied at the Metal department, specializing in sculpturing and metal design. Already in Bezalel he became interested in modern Judaica, as he put it, which combined the religious prohibition of making sculptures and pictures and the design style he was taught by his teachers at Bezalel, who were graduates of the Bauhaus: David Heinz Gumbel and Yehuda Wolpert.
"I was and still am a pioneer of modernism, minimalism and abstraction, and with time, I only become stricter" (Zelig Segal).
These words emphasize and amplify the extraordinarily innovative artist Zelig Segal is.
This item is introduced in the catalog of the Israel Museum - Bedibur Echad - and is dated to 1982.
| Weight: | 117 gr |
| Measurement: | 7 x 10 cm |
