Erich Glas

Ari (Erich) Glas (1897 - 1973) was a German and Israeli painter, graphic designer, illustrator and photographer.[1]

This article is about the German and Israeli artist. For the American painter Ari Glass, see Ari Glass.

Erich Glas

Glas was born in 1897 in Berlin, Germany under the name Erich Glas. During the World War I he served as a commando soldier and later as a pilot and an aerial photographer in the Imperial German Army.[2][3] He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and between 1919 and 1920 at the Bauhaus school in Weimar with Lyonel Feininger and Johannes Itten.[4] He joined "The Young Rheinland", an artistic group which was founded by Ulrich Leman. After 1926 Glas worked as an independent graphic artist in Weimar and Berlin. In addition, he taught painting and graphics. At that time his work was influenced by Max Liebermann.[5] In 1934 he left Germany because of the Nazi regime and started living in Kibbutz Yagur in Israel where he changed his first name to Ari.[6]

His son, Gotthard Glas, better known under the adopted name Uziel Gal was the designer of the Uzi submachine gun.

Ari Glas died in Haifa in 1973, leaving behind a large selection of his works: paintings, photographs, engravings and prints.

References
  1. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Bio-bibliographischer Index A-Z, The artists of the world, 10 volumes, Munich: K.G. Saur, 1999-2001. book 52, page 45 {Art Ref. N40 A55 1999}
  2. "Akko in the 50s: Between the walls". Ynetnews. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  3. "Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940- 1948" (PDF). Palestine Studies. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  4. "Ausstellung zu Bauhäusler Max Nehrling in Weimar - WELT". DIE WELT. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  5. "Information Center for Israeli Art | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem". museum.imj.org.il. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  6. Green, David B. (7 September 2016). "2002: The Man Who Brought Us the Uzi Dies". Haaretz. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
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