AESTHETIC
Villa Schocken in Jerusalem (c. 1936) Aesthetic Schocken was a consummate feinschmecker, believing that form, function and contents were equally
AESTHETIC
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh’s The Cypresses The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, in writing about “the Department Store King,” referred to Schocken’s multifaceted
Villa Schocken
Villa Schocken The Schocken Villa was built in 1934, to house members of the Schocken family who fled Nazi Germany
Nuremberg Machzor
Nuremberg Machzor The Nuremberg Machzor is a handwritten, lavishly decorated book of more than 1000 pages, containing the entire Ashkenazi
Bauhaus
Bauhaus Schocken was an ardent connoisseur of design and architecture. He took special interest in the career of Walter Gropius,
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine Few artists had generated so much love and hate among their fellow men – German and Jewish alike
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Schocken’s favorite German scholar was the 19th century romantic writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Moshe Spitzer
Moshe Spitzer Dr. Morris (Moshe) Spitzer, a renowned Sanskrit and ancient Indian scholar, was director of Schocken Verlag between 1934
Graphic Design
Graphic Design Graphic design played an eminent role in every one of Schocken’s various enterprises. Inspired by the geometrical style
Erich Mendelsohn
Erich Mendelsohn Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) is widely considered one of the greatest architects of the 20th century. When Schocken met