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Ilya Schor was born on 16 April, 1904 in Złoczów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast), is a Polish-American painter. Discover Ilya Schor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 16 April, 1904
Birthday 16 April
Birthplace Złoczów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast)
Date of death 7 June, 1961
Died Place New York City, New York, US
Nationality Hungary

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1904

Ilya Schor (April 16, 1904 – June 7, 1961) was an artist, a painter, jeweler, engraver, sculptor, and renowned artist of Judaica.

Ilya Schor was born in Złoczów (Galicia), in the Austrian Empire (now Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) in 1904.

He came from a deeply Hasidic family.

His father, Naftali, was a folk-artist, painting colorfully illustrated store signs for local merchants.

1930

Schor first trained as an apprentice in metalcrafts and engraving before enrolling at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1930 where he studied painting.

1937

In 1937, Ilya was awarded a grant by the Polish government to study in Paris.

1938

He exhibited successfully at the Salon d'Automne in 1938.

1941

Ilya Schor and his artist wife, Resia, immigrated to the United States in December 1941, from Marseilles, via Lisbon, after fleeing Paris in late May 1940.

1950

The couple had two daughters, born in New York City: artist and writer Mira Schor (b. 1950) and the late literary scholar and theorist, Naomi Schor (1943–2001).

In New York City, Ilya Schor began artwork that would keep fresh his memories of life of the Jews of the shtetls of Eastern Europe, working in the many materials and with the numerous skills at his disposal.

He worked on major commissions for synagogues in the United States.

Schor’s wood-engraving illustrations for The Earth is The Lord’s and The Sabbath, both important writings by the renowned philosopher and theologian, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and for Adventures of Mottel The Cantor’s Son by Sholem Aleichem, have remained in print for over fifty years.

Rabbi Heschel wrote of Schor’s work, “In the stillness of the precious images Ilya Schor has called into being, generations to come will hear the voice and the spirit of eternal Israel, the inwardness and piety of our people of Eastern Europe.” Schor was also the creator of unique jewelry and small Judaica objects in silver and gold.

In later years he also worked on abstract sculptures in brass and copper.

1953

His work was exhibited at The Salpeter Gallery in New York 1953, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Jewish Museum (New York) in 1948, and was included in group exhibitions such as Liturgical Art, Arts Club of Chicago and at the HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1959 and 1960; Six American Sculptors, Milwaukee Arts Center; Art in Judaism – Past and Present, Newark Museum in 1957; Six American Sculptors, Arts Club of Chicago in 1956.

1961

Ilya Schor died in New York City in 1961, aged 57.

1965

A retrospective of his work was held at the Jewish Museum (New York) in 1965.

1975

Another smaller exhibition of works in varied media, "Life of the Old Jewish Shtetl: Paintings and Silver by Ilya Schor", was held at Yeshiva University Museum in 1975.

His works are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum (New York), the Jerusalem Great Synagogue Jacob and Belle Rosenbaum Mezuzah Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Sydney Jewish Museum (Sydney, Australia).