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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Vintage Thursday Thingie: Portrait of Leo Baeck

This etching, a portrait of Leo Baeck by the Israeli artist Yehuda Bacon, is DH's. In the lower left hand corner of the etching you can see Bacon's etched signature...and in the margin on the right, below the etching, his actual signature. To the left of that is written in Hebrew "To Danny"...yes, this is a dedicated, signed etching to DH!
Yehuda Bacon (1929-), a Holocaust survivor, is still an active artist at age 81. His works have been exhibited in museums all over the world.

Leo Baeck (1873-1956), a prominent Reform Rabbi in prewar Germany, went to England after liberation from the Theresienstadt concentration camp. He later became Chairman of the World Union of Progressive Judaism.

To see more vintage wonders, hop on over to Coloradolady-our gracious hostess and holder of the key to many vintage treasures.

BTW, scroll down to my previous post for some embroidery transfer patterns of vintage cars!