Remarkable collection of paintings, drawings and sketches for graphic designs, created by Kurt Pick, 1916 till the 1950s.
Pick was born in Lissa (Poland) in 1890, worked as an architect in Frankfurt, mainly as an interior designer; The drawings in the album prove that he served as a soldier in WW I and created paintings of army-life and soldiers. Moved to Palestine in the 1930s and opened an architect's office on 58 "Achad Ha'Am "Str., Tel-Aviv. Pick designed advertisements, Ex-Libris labels and logos, sketches and printed versions which are contained in the collection presented here. Pick died in Tel-Aviv in 1959. The collection includes two albums with:
*63 drawings and paintings of the years 1916-1919. Among them a sketch of an illustration-booklet dedicated to his mother, titled: "Aus dem Leben eines Bauamts-Pionires in Rumanien"; samples of Ex-Libris labels designed by Pick, sketches for "Shana Tovah" greeting cards with writing in Hebrew, etc.
*37 sketches and printed samples of graphic works, including: original sketches for "Yediot Bnei Brit", Jerusalem, 1940s; logo of "Rosenberg and Federbusch" Printing Press; Logo of "Weinstein" chocolate, candies and coffee factory, 16 Sheinkin Str.; "Maskit" logo; advertisements for "Maspro" cigarettes, "Shemen" toothpaste, "HaAretz" newspaper, and more.
See: Kedem catalogue, no. 15, items 258. Items arranged in two albums, 26X36 cm. Generally in good condition.