Ismar David

Ismar David (27 August 1910 – 26 February 1996) was a calligrapher, graphic designer, and type designer.

Ismar David was born on 27 August 1910, in Breslau (Wrocław), then part of the German Empire, to Rosa and Wolff David.[1][2] He was apprenticed to a house painter in Breslau from 1925 to 1928, when he went to Berlin.[3] There, he went to art school at Städtische Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule in Charlottenburg.[4]

He left school in 1932 and moved to Jerusalem,[5] then under the Mandate for Palestine, where he worked with the Jewish National Fund to design golden books—works in which the fund's donors were profiled.[6][7] While in Jerusalem, David designed a typeface for the Hebrew language called David Hebrew.[5] David settled permanently in New York City in 1953.[8][9] David's art often accompanied religious texts.[10]

He died on 26 February 1996 in New York City.[1][11]

Publications
  • The Hebrew Letter: Calligraphic Variations (1990)[12]

Citations
  1. Kelly, Jerry; Koeth, Alice, eds. (2000). Artist & Alphabet: Twentieth Century Calligraphy and Letter Art in America. Godine. p. 121. ISBN 1-56792-137-X. OCLC 43927537.
  2. Brandshaft & Pankow 2005, p. 14.
  3. Brandshaft & Pankow 2005, pp. 17–18.
  4. Brandshaft & Pankow 2005, p. 18.
  5. Avni 2019, p. 52.
  6. Brandshaft & Pankow 2005, pp. 19, 21.
  7. Edelheit, Hershel; Edelheit, Abfaham J. (2000). History of Zionism: A Handbook and Dictionary. Westview Press. p. 315. ISBN 0-8133-2981-7.
  8. Brandshaft & Pankow 2005, p. 23–25.
  9. Gross, William; Tzion, Orly; Wiesemann, Falk (16 September 2019). Catalog of Catalogs: A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Brill Publishers. pp. 51–52. ISBN 978-90-04-40698-8. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  10. Brandshaft, Pankow & 2005, p. 9.
  11. Colodny, Susan; Pankow, David; Markham, Sandra. "The Work of Ismar David at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection" (PDF). Cary Graphic Arts Collection. OCLC 1124080490. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  12. Simon, Edward (1991). "Review of The Hebrew Letter". Shofar. 9 (3): 131. ISSN 0882-8539. JSTOR 42941656.

Works cited


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