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Herman Heimlich Collection

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93131
Collection
Herman Heimlich Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.1 linear metres of multiple media
Fonds No.
1368
Date
1956-2002
Collection
Herman Heimlich Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
0.1 linear metres of multiple media
Date
1956-2002
Fonds No.
1368
Storage Location
3-3B
Ctn. 001
History / Biographical
Herman Heimlich was born in Hungary in 1904 and was trained in art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. After graduation he became an instructor in that same institution. Heimlich left Budapest in 1928 and travelled throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada. During this time he painted and exhibited. He settled in Montreal in 1930 and opened his own studio, where he taught fine arts. Post World War II, many of his students were military veterans attending school as part of their Vocational Training Program. Later, he also became an instructor at the Department of Fine Arts at the Saidye Bronfman Art Centre. Herman Heimlich had numerous exhibitions, both solo and group. He had solo shows at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Agnes Lefort Gallery, the Penthouse Gallery, and the Saidye Bronfman Centre. Heimlich illustrated children's books and painted murals for public and private buildings in the United States and Canada. His works reside in private residences, galleries, and museums throughout Canada, the United States, England, Israel, Portugual, Hungary, South America, and South Africa.
Name Access
Heimlich, Herman, 1904-1986
Subjects
Artists
Painters
Painting
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Louis Muhlstock Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn92946
Collection
Louis Muhlstock Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.3m multiple media
Fonds No.
1447
Date
1977-2001
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of 5 folders of material, mainly ephemera and press clippings. Clippings consist of magazine and newpaper articles which report on Muhlstock's life and work, including his passing. Other material include pamphlets, invitations and other ephemera from Muhlstock's exhibits.
Collection
Louis Muhlstock Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.3m multiple media
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of 5 folders of material, mainly ephemera and press clippings. Clippings consist of magazine and newpaper articles which report on Muhlstock's life and work, including his passing. Other material include pamphlets, invitations and other ephemera from Muhlstock's exhibits.
Date
1977-2001
Fonds No.
1447
Storage Location
JPL Stacks
History / Biographical
Louis Muhlstock (1904-2001) was born in Galicia, then part of Austro-Hungary, and came to Montreal at the age of 7. In 1918 he began taking art classes at night at the Monument National, then at the Art Association of Montreal and École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited for the first time in 1925 at the Royal Canadian Academy. From 1928 to 1931 he also studied in Paris, returning to Montreal in 1932. Muhlstock was a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists, Canadian Group of Painters, Contemporary Arts Society, Federation of Canadian Artists and Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. He held an honorary doctorate from Concordia University (1978) and was an Officer of the Order of Canada (1991) and Chevalier de l'ordre du Québec (1998).
Language
English
Acquisition Source
Materials were donated by great-niece, Frieda Weinstein-Biton, in 2021.
Related Material
Jewish Canadiana Collection
Accession No.
21-007
Name Access
Muhlstock, Louis
Subjects
Artists
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Rita Briansky Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67779
Collection
Rita Briansky Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
1.0m of textual documents ; 54 sketchbooks ; 1623 photographs ; 3 audio cassettes
Fonds No.
1291
Date
1910 - 2011 [predominant 1950 to 2000]
Scope and Content
The fonds contains documentation, professional and working materials of Rita Briansky’s many projects and works. The fonds consists of textual records, including correspondence, selections of the artist’s writing; graphic material, including sketchbooks and photographic documentation of…
Collection
Rita Briansky Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
1.0m of textual documents ; 54 sketchbooks ; 1623 photographs ; 3 audio cassettes
Scope and Content
The fonds contains documentation, professional and working materials of Rita Briansky’s many projects and works. The fonds consists of textual records, including correspondence, selections of the artist’s writing; graphic material, including sketchbooks and photographic documentation of her work; audio recordings of Rita Briansky’s interviews and reviews; newspaper clippings, bibliographic reference publications and articles citing the artist’s work.
Date
1910 - 2011 [predominant 1950 to 2000]
Fonds No.
1291
Storage Location
JPL
Creator
Rita Briansky
History / Biographical
Rita Briansky, painter, printmaker-etcher and teacher, was born in 1925 in Grajewo, Poland. Together with her mother and two sisters, Bella and Becky, the family moved to Ansonville, Ontario in 1929. Here, they joined Briansky’s father and uncle, Jake Perlmutter, and his family in Ansonville, which at the time had a small Jewish community. In 1939, the family moved to Val d’Or, Quebec and finally to Montreal in 1941. Then in her mid-teens, Rita Briansky was a keen student who nourished a continued interest in art. With the move to Montreal, the Briansky Family struggled financially and was unable to afford the fee for Rita’s high school education. It was the Yiddish poet Ida Massey who found Rita a job so she would be able to pay for her schooling. This encouragement served as the beginning of a valuable friendship, as well as helping foster Briansky’s artistic career. Massey later introduced Rita to Alexander Berkowitz who at the time was giving art classes at the St. Urbain Street ‘Y’. Her training and experience quickly expanded, taking the young artist through Montreal’s Ecole des Beaux-Arts and New York’s Arts Student League. In 1949, Rita married fellow painter, Joseph Prezament.The couple had two children together, Anna and Wendy. Briansky’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions both in Canada and internationally. Her body of work is diverse in both theme and subject matter, reflecting her interests in fields such as astronomy and the natural world, while remaining deeply rooted in her own experiences. Following her travels to her birth place and memorial sites in Poland in 1995, Briansky produced the ‘Kaddish series’ as her reflection on the trauma of the Holocaust. Other series have broadly used landscape, portraiture and still lifes as a passionate response to the world around her and that speak fundamentally to the human condition. Briansky has participated in multiple collaborative projects, for example the children's book “On Stage, Please” with dancer/ choreographer Veronica Tennant. Briansky is long-established within Montreal’s art community working and living alongside a tight-knit group of artists. In addition, she has worked as teacher, both of art history and studio arts. Briansky’s artistic practice has won her multiple awards and her work is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Language
English
French
Yiddish
Custodial History
The material was donated by Rita Briansky in August 2012.
Arrangement
Textual material in Series 2 through 4 was given an imposed order as no discernable original order could be identified. The graphic material in Series 3, 6 and 7 were vetted for duplicates, though otherwise maintain the order given by the artist.
Notes
Selected images from Series 1,6 and 7 have been digitized and are available to researchers upon request.
Access Restrictions
Privacy restrictions may apply
Reproduction Restrictions
Copyright restrictions may apply. For queries please contact Head of Archives, Shannon Hodge: shannon.hodge@jplmontreal.org
Finding Aid
Detailed finding aid available, file level control
Accession No.
12-015
Name Access
Briansky, Rita
Subjects
Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
Artists
Fine Arts
Drawings
Maze, Ida, 1893-1962.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
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Robert Adams Collection

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50190
Collection
Robert Adams Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.37m of multiple media
Fonds No.
1306
Date
[between 1900 and 1990] predominently 1987-1988
Scope and Content
The Collection contains, correspondence, research notes, photographs, negatives, museum catalogues, magazines, manuscripts and news clippings related to life and work of Alexander Bercovitch as well as the research and publication of "The Life and Work of Alexander Bercovitch - Artist" by Robert Ad…
Collection
Robert Adams Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.37m of multiple media
Scope and Content
The Collection contains, correspondence, research notes, photographs, negatives, museum catalogues, magazines, manuscripts and news clippings related to life and work of Alexander Bercovitch as well as the research and publication of "The Life and Work of Alexander Bercovitch - Artist" by Robert Adams. The material predominently focuses on the years 1987-1988, during which Adams was researching, writing and publishing his book.
Date
[between 1900 and 1990] predominently 1987-1988
Fonds No.
1306
Storage Location
7-1A
History / Biographical
Robert Adams was born in South Wales in 1937. He first studied at the London School of Economics, after which he moved to Montreal to continue his education and teaching career at Concordia University. In 1972 he received a position at College Bois-du-Boulogne where he taught for eight more years. It was during these years he wrote his first book, “The Life and Work of Alexander Bercovitch – Artist.” In the same year of its publication, 1988, the noted biography was short listed for the Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-Language Literature (QSPELL) award in non-fiction. Robert Adams would later go on to be a recognized book reviewer, speaking regularly on CBC Radio’s “Talking Books” and TV Ontario’s “Big Ideas” on Book TV. He was also been a frequent guest-speaker at many literary functions, including those held by the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. Known as the father of modern Jewish painting in Montreal, Alexander Bercovitch was a Russian Jewish painter born in 1891 in the port city of Kherson in the Ukraine. He spent his formative years travelling across Europe honing his artistic skills and establishing himself as a painter. It wasn’t until 1926 that Bercovitch and his family came to Montreal. After a difficult first year in Montreal Bercovitch left his family and would continue to have a turbulent relationship with his wife and children. Throughout the remaining twenty-four years of his life Bercovitch would join the "Eastern Group of Painters,” work with John Lyman to establish the Canadian Arts Society of Jewish Artists and the Eastern Group as well as teach a generation of Jewish artists, including Moe Reinblatt, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Rita Briansky and Esther Wertheimer. On January 7, 1951 Alexander Bercovitch died from a massive heart-attack, which struck him only four hours before his retrospective was to open at the YM-YWHA.
Language
English
French
Yiddish
Arrangement
Original order was maintained. Duplicates were removed from both the textual and photographic material.
Notes
Includes correspondence to and from Alexander Bercovitch.
Subjects
Painters
Montreal (Quebec)
Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
Bercovitch, Alexander
Artists
Adams, Robert
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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