Weil Simone

1966 · Best.-Nr. 129888 — N.P.: n.p. 1966. Limited Editions Club. framed painting 34 by 28 inches. A framed watercolor depicting a guard at the fortress and monastic community at Qumran. Shraga Weil 1918-2009 was an Israeli artist. Born in Prague in 1918 he studied at the National School of Arts there. He served in the Hungarian resistance to the Nazis during World War II. After the war he joined the exodus to Israel. He received training in monumental and graphic techniques at the Academy of Arts in Paris in 1953. He worked as a designer and illustrator of books during the 1950s during which time he was illustrator of The Dead Sea Scrolls New York: Limited Editions Club 1966. This work was offered but not used as an illustration for that book. In the 1960s and 1970s he created several architectural designs including the copper doors for the main entrance of the Knesset building and the residence of the President of Israel in Jerusalem. source: Knesset website and Shraga Weil website. Qumran was the location of an ancient Jewish fortress and Essene monastic community where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found beginning in 1947. n.p. unknown books