“NEW YEAR – NEW ARRIVALS” At The Farkash Gallery- OCTOBER 2019

The Farkash Gallery is proud to present a rare collection of 9 large tourism posters to Palestine Eretz Israel printed in the Netherlands in 1926.
The posters printed  according paintings by Ludwig Blum and depict the landscapes of the Land of Israel At that time.
Panorama of Jerusalem
Old city of Nazareth
The Old City Alley in Jerusalem
Bedouin in the Dead Sea
Bethlehem
The Sea of Galilee
Maresba Monastery
Haifa Bay

These posters plates, from the series “Palestine in Words and Pictures”, were printed in the Netherlands As a tourism poster for the Holy Land and for hanging in schools.

The painter Ludwig Blum, born in Lisen, Czechoslovakia in 1891, immigrated to Palestine in 1923 and settled in Jerusalem. He held many exhibitions in Palestine, Europe and the U.S., and was one of the leaders of the initiative to found the Artists’ House in Jerusalem, in a building situated near the King David Hotel that had been in use as a British officers’ club. In 1968 Blum received the “Yakir Yerushalayim” (Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) award for his artistic contribution to the city. Blum died in Jerusalem in 1974.