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Israeliana - Teppich

Original works by Hans Teppich from Jerusalem

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Hans Teppich was born in Germany in 1904. After finishing High-School in Berlin he learned woodcarving and worked in a furniture factory for three years. During this period he studied art in evening classes, and then continued studying for ten more years in morning classes in the “Kunstgewerbe und Handwerkerschule” in Berlin. He acquired a broad range of art education, including: drawing, sculpture, metalwork, bronze casting, metal turning, and interior design.

Hans Teppich won many prizes during his studies for different projects in which he participated. His bronze and stone sculptures of animals were presented in an exhibition at the Berlin Zoo.

In 1933 he immigrated to Israel and established a workshop in Jerusalem.

In his workshop he created different practical art objects including Hanukkah lamps, Candlesticks, Mezuzot, Israeli flower shaped Spice boxes, many beautiful pieces of jewelry and unique chess sets.

Teppich was a genius artist. He became famous for his Biblical figures and Judaic items.

Hans Teppich passed away in 1983 at the age of 79 in Israel.

 

Brass Figures from the Bible

Here we have a collection of real original Teppich figures, we have assembled them from various sources mainly for reference purposes.

These figures were made since early Palestine days up to 1970s

Height range from 3.5 cm (1.4") - Palestine era, up to 6 cm (2.4")

Typical bottoms arranged chronologically

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Palestine Israel-1-50s Israel-2-60s Israel-3-60s Not by Teppich

The rarest are those marked "Palestine", later came those marked Made in Israel, then came those with paper labels with the figure names.

Some have an "Original Teppich" label on a lead tag (2186 "Mas-Kniya"=Purchase-Tax number)
and the symbol of the State of Israel on the other side.

The myth about bullets used as material is definitely not true and was initiated by one of the American dealers...

The page below appeared in a catalogue by I. Wolsky 1955 containing Israeli Arts and Crafts.

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Initially he made the 13 figures as shown above and later when he realized that he is being copied by one of his past employee he added more figures.

teppich-x-palestine-1.jpg (6247 bytes) teppich-x-palestine-2.jpg (6476 bytes) This is one of the rarest and earliest figure made by Hans Teppich.

It is signed/engraved MADE IN PALESTINE and Jerusalem
(without the 'yod' in Hebrew)

It is difficult to verify the name, it is obvious however
that it is a Biblical female.
I was told that it is probably Eve (Hava).
Height is 3.5 cm (1.4") -
typical to the Palestine era,
later figures were somewhat larger, up to 6 cm (2.4")
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Ahasveros Esther Rachel Shulamit Dancer
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Gent-Modern Man Abraham Chasidic Rabbi/Mordechai Chassid King David
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Miriam Miriam-back Yeshiva-Student Moses Joshua

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Joseph Joseph-back Smadar Salomon Deborah

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Sarah Tamar Sheba Aron Salome
The Following Below Are For Sale
teppich-a-aron David deborah esther joseph
Aron - $ 69 King David - $ 69 Deborah - $ 69 Esther - $ 69 Joseph - $ 69
chassid shulamith tamar miriam rachel
Chassid - $ 69 Shulamit - $ 69 Tamar - $ 69 Miriam - $ 69 Rachel - $ 69
joshua moses moses sarah sarah
Joshua - $ 65 Moses - $ 69 Moses - $ 65 Sarah - $ 69 Sarah - $ 64
abraham
Abraham - $ 65


Other works by Teppich

The following items were associated with Teppich, but they are definitely not by him and they are not signed.

The first 2 Hanukkah lamps shown below were made by the 'Ort' school in Israel about 1960-70s

The third one (right) was made by one of his past employee who opened his own shop.

In addition, any figure that is hand etched with 'name' and 'Israel', were made by one of his past employee who copied his famous Bible figures and those were made until recently.

The figures below are in that category and they are also collected.

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Bat-Sheba Rebecca Leah Ahasveros Shulamit
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Mordecai David Shamuel Isaac Salomon
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Hannah ? ?

 

 

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