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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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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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Sher, Joseph

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18201
Collection
Joseph Sher Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file textual material
Fonds No.
1172
Date
1995-2002
Collection
Joseph Sher Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file textual material
Parallel Title
Exhibits, etc.
Responsibility
Regenstreff, Al
Date
1995-2002
Fonds No.
1172
Storage Location
7-5C, SC1
Language
English
Acquisition Source
Al Regenstreff
Name Access
Regenstreif, Al
Subjects
Art
Sher, Joseph
Painters
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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