Star of David

On the road from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv are scattered dozens of Israeli 60 Independence Year Flags, starting at the exit from Jerusalem and ending at Shaar Hagay. Each flag is an ambassador of our national emblem, the magen David.

Yellow Badge above the word Remember on an Israeli postage stamp issued twenty years after the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps to commemorate the event.

Designer: Yaakov Zim

Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.

Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008

This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a tree, which looks like a prophet, holding in its arms an incomplete Magen David, which hints to thebroken tables of the covenant. In the background we see a calf head- hinting to the Golden Calf.

Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.

Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008

This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a tree holding broken triangles, which reminds us of the broken tables of the covenant and of a broken Magen David. The tree reminds us of the Tree of Life.

Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.

Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008

This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a tree holding broken triangles, which remind us of the broken tables of the covenant and of a broken Magen David.

Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.

Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008

This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a head of a calf with a Star of David and an egg.

Painter Jacques Heller is the president of the Israel Miniature Art Society. He was born in France in 1925.

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Daniela Klauzner.

Copyright: Daniela Klauzner 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal AlonHouse, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Technique: Two linoleum prints, one on yellow paper the other on gauze, glued one above the other.

Title: Marriage in Black

Artist’s Caption: My parents’ wedding on 14.5.1944, in the midst of WWII, in a synagogue in Budapest, Hungary. There was a rumor that young academic Jews will not be taken to forced labor camps if they marry, and since my father just finished his PhD in chemistry and since he and my mother were together for five years they decided to get married quickly.

Daniela Klauzner was a biologist until she started 11 years a go to create art. She lives in Natania.