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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
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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
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
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
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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