Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
The Bezalel School of Art, known today as the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, was founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz in Jerusalem, Israel. In 1918, the Academy offered instruction in painting, sculpture, metalworking, carpet making, and woodcarving; today, they offer degrees in architecture and urban design, fashion and jewelry, fine arts, glass and ceramics, industrial design, photography, screen-based arts, and visual communication. The school is Israel’s oldest institute of higher education, and is considered the most prestigious art school in the country.
In its beginnings, the school had financial difficulties leading up to World War 1, as well as afterwards in the 1930s, leading to Schatz traveling abroad and temporarily closing the school to raise money. This later led to Berlin print artist, Josef Budko, opening the New Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in 1935, and in 1955 it was declared an Academy of Art. The new campus, shown in images two and three, is modern, made mostly of glass and concrete and primarily with squares/rectangles, reminiscent of Bauhaus style architecture.
Source: https://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/about/milestones
Image 2: Taken by Shai Halevi - received by email from author, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9053657
