Title: Martin Buber TP (FS IIB.228)
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40″ x 32″
Edition: 25 TP signed and numbered in pencil. Portfolio of 10. Each print is unique.
Martin Buber Trial Proof 228 was one of ten screenprints created in the series Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. In 1980, a publisher in Tel Aviv asked Andy Warhol to create a portfolio on Jewish figures of the twentieth century. Warhol was captivated by luminaries of the Jewish culture, and he referred to them as his “Jewish Geniuses.” Warhol selected Martin Buber (1878 – 1965), the renowned Hasidic scholar and philosopher. Buber’s metaphysical writings, as well as his retelling of Hasidic tales, have made him one of the most popular Jewish scholars of all time. His involvement in the founding of the State of Israel, also makes him, for many, one of the fathers of the modern Israeli state.
