Beschreibung:

Collection of items related to Joseph Budko including etchings and woodcuts by him, photographs, postcards and more. The collection includes: * Ten photographs. Including: two photographs of Joseph Budko in his home town of Plonsk, 1926 (one was photographed in the synagogue); group photograph of the visit of the British High Commissioner Arthur Wauchope to New Bezalel, 1936; photograph of Joseph Budko giving a painting lesson on the roof of Bezalel; three photographs of Hermann Struck (divided on reverse for use as a postcard); and more. * Twelve small woodcuts, most on thin paper. Including woodcuts from the "Hassidic Legends" (Chassidische Legende), illustrations to poems by Hayim Nahman Bialik, and more. Unsigned. * Two etchings, signed in pencil by Budko, and two unsigned prints. * "Greeting Sheet" (Gedenkblatt) with original etching by Budko. * Four leaves - trial prints of Budko's woodcuts for Heinrich Heine's "The Rabbi of Bacharach" (published in Berlin in 1921); and two leaves with trial prints of ornamental initials (these may also have been intended for "The Rabbi of Bacharach"). * A sheet with twelve small prints. Apparently a trial print for the book "Das Jahr des Juden". * Eleven bookplates (some of them etchings), designed by Joseph Budko Bookplates of Moses Marx, Emil Netter, Heinrich Eisemann, Budko himself and others. * Two official postcards from the 12th and 13th Zionist Congresses, with illustrations by Budko. * Catalogue of "Joseph Budko, Memorial Exhibition at the National Museum Bezalel", published by the Board of Governors of the New Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. Jerusalem, 1940. * Other items, including pamphlets, reproductions of Budko's works, postcards and more. About 80 items in all. Size and condition vary. Provenance: Shlomo Shva collection.