Otte Wallisch ( 1903 , Czech Republic - 1977 , Israel ; Hebrew אוטה וליש ) - a graphic designer who immigrated to Palestine from the Czech Republic, who contributed to the symbolic self-representation of the Jewish state .
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Biography
Ote Wallis was born in the city of Znojmo (today in the Czech Republic). He studied at the Vienna Academy of Art, and after serving in the Czech army, opened an office for graphic design and advertising in Prague [1] . He worked with the Jewish National Fund and with the United Israeli Appeal. In 1934, after his marriage, he emigrated on a ship to Palestine. In 1935, his wife joined him, while his brother survived the Holocaust and after the war remained in the Czech Republic . The couple had two children, and they settled in the house of Herzliya with Bauhaus furniture [2] . His name is often spelled incorrectly as Otto [3] .
In the 1930s and 1940s, Wallisch worked on decoration, statistical graphs, and other design aspects for books. In 1929, his own book, ABC: Ein Bilderbuch , was published.
In 1936, Vallish founded a design studio in a building on Nahalat Binyamin Street in Tel Aviv, which was chosen as a national landmark. His design studio has become a kind of facade for the ShAI , the secret service of Hagana [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Drawing the face of a nation
- ↑ 1 2 Marcales, Richard A. Zionism's enigmatic design innovator (neopr.) // The Jerusalem Post (Magazine edition). - 2003 .-- August 15. - S. 7ff. .
- ↑ Ronnen, Meir. Selling Zionism (unopened) // The Jerusalem Post . - 1997 .-- January 31. For example, art critic Ronnen incorrectly criticizes the Israel Museum about the artist's name: "However the labels at the show are also in English, with some errors, like Otte for Otto."