Prints and Drawing

The Department of Prints and Drawings holds a collection of 25,000 works on paper: sketches, prints, illustrated books and drawings by the greatest artists of all times, with a particular emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century works. The Collection has grown, along with the Museum, thanks to donations from collectors around the world. Acquisitions have been made primarily from the field of Israeli art, but also include a collection of prints by contemporary, international artists.

Acquisitions in the field of Israel art have been made from original print workshops active in Israel - The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Harel Workshop, Yafo, and the Print Workshop at Kibbutz Cabri. These acquisitions emphasize a representative selection of graphic work in Irael - quality, original prints, produced by unique print processes, in contrast to commercial prints that reproduce existing works. A special effort has been made to focus on collecting specific artists in-depth, such as Larry Abramson, Moshe Gershuni, Lea Nikel, Asaf Ben Zvi, who consistently work in the print medium, along with their activity in other mediums. Almost complete collections have been built of the graphic work of artists Yigael Tumarkin (Gift of the Artist, the Harel Workshop and the Breston Workshop) and Menashe Kadishman (Gift of the Artist). These collections document especially intensive activity in the field of print, and constitute a resource for research on the oeuvre of the artists. As well, the collection has been enriched by a representative selection of the graphic work of the artists Rudi Lehman, Ludwig Schwerin and Moshe Hoffman, from their estates. Special emphasis has been placed on building a collection of artist books. In the field of international art, two especially significant acquistions are worthy of mention: one comprises prints from the 1980s by the contemporary German artist George Baselitz, and the other is a series of 12 prints by the noted American artist rank Stella. The Baselitz prints, which represent F new

Madonna, 1895 (Loving Woman, Conception) Edward munch Colour Lithoraph The Charles and Evelin Kramer Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum

German painting and the renaissance of expressionist elements in German prints, supplement the collection of German continue and Expressionist works from the early 20th century, an important part of the collection of prints and drawings at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The print series by Frank Stella, Had Gadya after El Lissitsky, 1982-1984, was produced following a visit of the artist to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and was inspired by the gouache series of El Lissitsky in the Museum Collection.

The Edvard Munch Collection - Gift of Charles and Evelyn Kramer, New York In 1986, a collection of some 150 prints by the renowned Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was donated to the Museum by Charles and Evelyn Kramer of New York, who had previously given a significant donation of a collection of self-portraits by artists from the 15th century to today. The Munch Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is one of the largest print collections by this artist in the world, and includes a representative selection of Munch's graphic oeuvre: etchings, lithographs, and coloured woodcuts, beginning with the early prints in Berlin dating from 1894-1895 through prints done in the last years of the artist's life. The uniqueness of the collection is that it includes most of the important images in the oeuvre of Munch and includes different versions and editions of the same motives in different techniques. A selection from this collection is on show permanently at the Museum. Collection of Surrealist Prints and Drawings - Gift of Charles and Evelyn Kramer In 1990, an important collection of some 300 books and prints by Surrealist artists was donated to the Museum by Charles and Evelyn Kramer of New York, which focus ont he fascinating collaboration between Surrealist painters, authors and poets.

Rene Magritte L'Oeil, 1968 (L'Oeil vert or L'Object) From le lien de paille by Louis Scutenaire Etching Charles and Evelyn Kramer Collection

The Abraham Horodisch Collection
An additional important collection, donated over the last decade is the collection of Abraham Horodisch from Amsterdam. This is a comprehensive collection of prints, drawings, albums, books and periodicals of first-generation and mainly second-generation German Expressionist artists.

Abraham Horodisch was a collector and publisher of printsin German during the 1920s, and with the rise of the Nazis he was forced to leave Germany. He managed tos ave the collection and to transfer it to Amsterdam. Part of the collection was donated to the Museum in the lifetime of Dr. Horodisch, and another part - after his death. Abraham Horodisch chose the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as a worthy repository for his important and rare collection, as he was aware of the quality of the Museum collectino in this field. Still, the Horodisch Collectino is a significant addition to the Museum collections of similar historical background and quality, such as that of Dr. Karl Schwarz, the Goeritz Collection, and the Hermann Struck Collection. The Oskar Kokoschka Print Collection In recognition of the importance of the Expressionist Collection at the Museum, the artist's widow, Mrs. Olda Kokoschka, donated 120 prints of the artist's late work. This donation and early works already in the Museum's other Graphic collections together constitute a large and representative group of the graphic work of the artist.		Moshe Gershuni 13 etching to Poems by H.N Bialik , 1986-1987 Print Workshop Gift of Edward and Marion Richmond and Family, London, Ontario Joan Miro' From A tout e'preuve by Paul Eluard Ge'rald Cramer, Geneva 1958 (Book with 80 woodcuts) Woodcut Charles and Evelyn Kramer Collection
Monument of Holocaust and Revival, 1975 Series of four screenprints Edition: 40 Publisher: Har-el		Lea Nikel Book Spring 1992