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      Largest single monetary gift to acquire art in UC Berkeley history brings work of major 20th-century artist to campus

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      Image has been digitally retouched.SZYK AS A RENAISSANCE MAN. Between the 14th and 16th centuries, the Age of the Renaissance saw a world awakening from the plagues of superstition and feudalism. After a long period of economic stagnation came financial growth, along with a fresh start to artistic, social, and scientific advancements. A long-suppressed freedom of thought was unleashed on the world. There seems always to exist in times of stupendous change an extraordinarily prescient observer who is able to link the old and the modern, one who makes sense of their interdependence and the manner in which one builds upon the other.  These are the writers, the scholars, the artists of civilization. Szyk’s life and work are ample proof that he himself was one of these unique individuals. In essence, he was a Renaissance man literally and figuratively, and not only that, but able to transpose himself back in time as a Renaissance scribe writing about modern times. Szyk’s voice is the voice of experience of the ages, able to speak from a humanist as well as a modern perspective. THIS MAY VERY WELL BE SZYK’S QUINTESSENTIAL WORK THROUGH WHICH HE REVEALS HIMSELF AS A DEEP AND BRILLIANT THINKER ALLOWING HIS VIEWERS TO COMTEMPLATE THE CHANGING WORLD WITHIN A SINGLE MASTERPIECE.His intricately allegorical illumination, The Scribe, portrays a mature medieval scholar impossibly contemplating the modern age of the airplane, the train, abstract art, and printed currency. The man is paused in the writing of an enigmatic poem that seems to bend time. Like Leonardo Da Vinci, this visionary sees beyond the confines of his own civilization and into the mysterious brilliance of the future.The poem, written in modern German, likely echoes Syzk’s own approach, in his own words, to modernity:Today does beauty leap over the mortal remains of the dead?Does the human bird [airplane] rattle in clear heights and drown out the primary groans of death merely to envy the multi-co

      Image has been digitally retouched.SZYK AS A RENAISSANCE MAN. Between the 14th and 16th centuries, the Age of the Renaissance saw a world awakening from the plagues of superstition and feudalism. After a long period of economic stagnation came financial growth, along with a fresh start to artistic, social, and scientific advancements. A long-suppressed freedom of thought was unleashed on the world. There seems always to exist in times of stupendous change an extraordinarily prescient observer who is able to link the old and the modern, one who makes sense of their interdependence and the manner in which one builds upon the other. These are the writers, the scholars, the artists of civilization. Szyk’s life and work are ample proof that he himself was one of these unique individuals. In essence, he was a Renaissance man literally and figuratively, and not only that, but able to transpose himself back in time as a Renaissance scribe writing about modern times. Szyk’s voice is the voice of experience of the ages, able to speak from a humanist as well as a modern perspective. THIS MAY VERY WELL BE SZYK’S QUINTESSENTIAL WORK THROUGH WHICH HE REVEALS HIMSELF AS A DEEP AND BRILLIANT THINKER ALLOWING HIS VIEWERS TO COMTEMPLATE THE CHANGING WORLD WITHIN A SINGLE MASTERPIECE.His intricately allegorical illumination, The Scribe, portrays a mature medieval scholar impossibly contemplating the modern age of the airplane, the train, abstract art, and printed currency. The man is paused in the writing of an enigmatic poem that seems to bend time. Like Leonardo Da Vinci, this visionary sees beyond the confines of his own civilization and into the mysterious brilliance of the future.The poem, written in modern German, likely echoes Syzk’s own approach, in his own words, to modernity:Today does beauty leap over the mortal remains of the dead?Does the human bird [airplane] rattle in clear heights and drown out the primary groans of death merely to envy the multi-co

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      By Joel Bahr, Berkeley News

      The extensive body of work of an artist and illustrator whose subjects spanned some of the most profound events of the 20th century will be available to the world in a public institution for the first time, thanks to a $10.1 million gift from Bay Area-based Taube Philanthropies to The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley. The Taube grant is the largest single monetary gift to acquire art in the history of the campus.

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      “The Scribe” Paris, 1927

      This gift provides students, scholars and the public access to the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk, a Polish Jewish artist and political caricaturist who ultimately settled in the U.S. in 1940. Szyk used motifs drawn from the Bible, history, politics and culture to pair extraordinary craftsmanship with insightful commentary on a diverse range of subjects including Judaism, the founding of the State of Israel, the American War of Independence, World War II, and the Holocaust.

      Taube Philanthropies’ $10.1 million gift to acquire the Szyk collection is a continuation of its support for UC Berkeley in making exemplary Jewish art and culture accessible to wider audiences. In 2010, support by the foundation through a $250,000 grant helped ensure the transfer of the 15,000-item collection, formerly known as the Judah L. Magnes Museum, to its current home at Berkeley, where it has thrived as The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. The new gift is also the largest single monetary gift in the area of Jewish studies in the campus’s history.

      The latest gift, the voluminous Szyk collection, now known as the Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection, is moving from a private owner to a world-class university, exposing new generations to a major artist whose work is drawing significant interest in the art world, decades after his death. The Magnes — which holds the third-largest Jewish museum collection in the U.S., and the only one of such size in the world housed at a research university — is particularly well suited to study and showcase Szyk’s work.

      “Arthur Szyk’s unique contributions to contemporary art and political illustration have not yet been recognized to the extent his work deserves,” said Tad Taube, chairman of Taube Philanthropies. “With our shared Polish Jewish heritage, and a relationship my parents developed with Szyk upon first arriving in the United States from Poland in the early 1940s, it is significant to me to ensure that Szyk’s remarkable works are available to today’s and future generations. Through our philanthropic activities at Taube Philanthropies, we hope to create entrepreneurial opportunities. The elevation of Szyk’s diverse, intricate portrayals of European, American and Jewish history, and anti-Nazi political propaganda, in the superb academic setting of UC Berkeley provides an ideal venue for Szyk’s monumental collection.”
      Added UC Berkeley Helen Fawcett Professor of History Tom Laqueur, “It’s really pretty rare for a single institution to have, essentially, the entire corpus of an important artist’s work, in addition to a vast trove of documentary material — which is to say his diaries, financial records, commissions. Arthur Szyk was an important political artist, as well as an important Jewish artist, who captured and commented on significant world events in his art.”“Arthur Szyk operated simultaneously in many countries, cultures and languages, and he was a refugee for a good part of his life,” said Francesco Spagnolo, curator of The Magnes Collection. “The Magnes is committed to exploring and documenting the cultures of Jews in the global diaspora, and this collection furthers that goal. Our curatorial task — and the academic task of the larger Berkeley community — is to thoroughly examine every aspect of Szyk’s work and place it in proper context.”

      Born into a middle-class Polish Jewish family in 1894, Szyk lived a life framed by two world wars, the rise of totalitarianism in Europe, and the birth of the State of Israel, before his death in 1951. Much of his work centered around these historical experiences. Szyk was raised in Poland, educated in France, traveled to the Middle East and North Africa, and lived in London and Canada before moving to New York in 1940, where he met Taube’s family.

      While much of Szyk’s art is stylistically reminiscent of medieval and Renaissance traditions, many of his works reflect the social and political unease that gripped the world during his lifetime. A harsh critic of Hitler and Nazi totalitarianism, a number of his most famous pieces portray what Szyk called the “madness” of his times.

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      “My People. Samson in the Ghetto (The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto)” New York, 1945

      “Coming under the stewardship of The Magnes as the Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection will mean greater access for the general public to Szyk’s work, opening the door to academic research and scholarship by individuals at Berkeley and beyond, as well as collaborative partnerships,” said George Breslauer, UC Berkeley’s former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost who now serves as director of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

      The newly acquired collection represents a range of Szyk’s artistic activities, including many of his most valuable works. They include 450 artworks, comprising paintings, drawings and sketches from across the artist’s lifespan. Accompanying Szyk’s artwork in the collection is a wealth of documents, including books, newspapers, magazines and other publications that featured the artist’s work.

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      These partnerships include a portion of the collection being sent on loan to the New York Historical Society for a major exhibition opening in September, potential international museum collaborations and cooperation with the Digital Humanities initiatives at UC Berkeley.

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      Select high-resolution images from the Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection, at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley, are available for the media’s use and can be downloaded via this online album. Complete caption information is included in an accompanying document in the album.

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