Modern Art: Sabbath Candlesticks by the Important Artist Azriel (Zelig) Segal. Israel the 20th Century

Modern Art: Sabbath Candlesticks by the Important Artist Azriel (Zelig) Segal. Israel the 20th Century

Unique modern work of art by the important Bezalel artist Zelig Segal.

Anodized aluminum skillfully and creatively designed by the important Israeli designer Zelig Segal to form these modular Sabbath candlesticks. 

Zelig Segal: an Israeli designer, sculptor and Judaica artist whose boundless innovativeness suprised and impressed anyone who saw his works of art, which were both functional and decorative. 

Zelig was born in Jerusalem in 1933 and grew up in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood. His mother was the midwife of the Yishuv of Hebron and his father, a Melamed of the Etz Chaim Talmud Torah of the Mazkeret Moshe neighborhood. In his youth, he studied in a Cheider and later, at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva and the Torat Emet Yeshiva of Chabad.

When he was 16, assisted by a scholarship he received from David Ben Gurion, Segal began studying at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and during the years 1949-1954, studied at the Metal department, specializing in sculpturing and metal design.

Already in Bezalel he became interested in modern Judaica, as he put it, which combined the religious prohibition of making sculptures and pictures and the design style he was taught by his teachers at Bezalel, who were graduates of the Bauhause: David Heinz Gumbel and Yehuda Wolpert. Segal lived in Jerusalem, working at a workshop in the Hutzot Hayotzer artists' colony of the town. Passed away in 2015.

Weight:	319 gr
Measurement:	5 x 5 cm
Depth:	5 cm