Portrait of Fia [Fuchs] 1922

Woman with dark wavy hair shown in profile facing right, The head is worked out in detail, the rest suggested through a few lines. Star of David and artist's initials imprinted in lower left corner. Signed lower left by Struck. "Bildnis Fia" and "dupe print dated 1922 Sifred Fuchs (?)" written on back.F. S. Strook, 1964Hermann Struck was born Chaim Aaron ben David in 1876 in Germany. He is best known as a master etcher, lithographer and early Zionist. He studied for five years at the Berlin Academy and in 1908 wrote Die Kunst des Radierens (The Art of Etching), while mentoring artists such as Marc Chagall, Max Liebermann and Lesser Ury. His art was included in an exhibition at the Fifth Zionist Congress and he helped establish the religious Zionist movement called Mizrachi. Struck was an Orthodox Jew but believed that culture and religion could thrive cooperatively in Israel. He immigrated to Haifa where he created an artistic community and participated in the development of the Tel Aviv Museum and the Bezalel art school in Jerusalem. He died in 1944.digitizedDigital imag