Illustrator, printmaker and photographer
E. M. Lilien
Jugendstil illustrator whose flowing black-and-white line shaped modern Jewish book art.
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The life
1874-1925Born Drohobycz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Drohobych, Ukraine)
Ephraim Moses Lilien was born in Drohobycz in Galicia and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków before working in Munich and Berlin. His ornamental black-and-white drawings, full of lilies, vines and Biblical figures, are among the best-known Jewish art of the Jugendstil, the German Art Nouveau. He illustrated Juda (1900), ballads by Börries von Münchhausen, and Lieder des Ghetto (1902), poems by Morris Rosenfeld, and from 1908 to 1912 the illustrated Bible edition Die Bücher der Bibel. A Zionist, he helped found the Bezalel art school in Jerusalem in 1906 and taught its first class; he is sometimes called the first Zionist artist. He was also a photographer, known for his portrait of Theodor Herzl. Picturepops cards use his book drawings.