Ludwig Blum

-Líšeň Ludwig Blum was born in 1891 in Líšeň (now part of Brno), Margraviate of Moravia. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1923, as part of the Third Aliyah. He served in the First World War. He was privately educated in Vienna and later attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. ==Career==

Upon his arrival in Mandatory Palestine, and as a dedicated Zionist, Blum started paintings scenes of everyday life and landscapes in Israel. Additionally, he painted some kibbutzes: Kiryat Anavim and Degania Alef, and the lives of Israeli soldiers, including the Palmach. He also painted copper mines in the Timna Valley. ==Death==

Blum died in 1974 in Jerusalem. ==Selected paintings==

• Jerusalem in the Snow (1927). • Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim (1932). • The Arch of Constantine (1944). • Jerusalem, seen from Mount Scopus (1950). • The Market in Jerusalem (1950). • View of Jerusalem from the Hill of Evil Counsel (1951). • Landscape (1956). • Timna, Copper Mines (1957). • ''Jerusalem, David's Tower and the Sultan's Pool, seen from Mishkanot Shaananim'' (1964). • The Western Wall. • Sea of Galilee. • Portrait with a keffiyeh. ==See also==