Hermann Struck

Hermann Struck (6 March 1876 – 11 January 1944) was a German Jewish artist known for his etchings.

Biography

Hermann Struck (Chaim Aaron ben David) was born in Berlin. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. In 1904, he joined the modern art movement known as the Berlin Secession.

In 1908, Struck published "Die Kunst des Radierens" ("The Art of Etching"), which became a seminal work on the subject. Struck's students included Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Jacob Steinhardt, Lesser Ury and Max Liebermann.

Struck immigrated to Palestine in 1922, taught at Bezalel Academy and helped establish the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. It preserves and displays Struck's personal items, books, and oil paintings, operates a children's creativity center, and offers workshops in printmaking, sculpture, and painting. The museum also runs a program of temporary exhibitions of art relating to Struck's work or themes.

Other institutions Besides the Hermann Struck Museum, Struck's work is held in the collections of several other institutions worldwide. These include the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum (Manhattan), the Haifa Museum of Art, the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Selected works