biography of Jacob LANDAU (1917-2001)

Birth place: Phila., PA

Addresses: Roosevelt, NJ

Profession: Painter, printmaker

Studied: Phila. Col. Art (cert., 1938), with Earl Horter & Franklin Watkins; New Sch. Soc. Res., 1948-49 &1952-53, with Erich Fromm, Rudolf Arnheim & Eugene O'Neill, Jr.

Exhibited: "The Figure," "Recent Paintings USA," 1962 & "Tamarind--Homage to Lithography," 1969, MoMA; Smithsonian Print Show, White House, Wash., DC, 1966; "Three Artists View The Human Condition," NJ State Mus., Trenton, 1968; "Human Concern/Personal Torment," WMAA, 1969; Assoc. Am. Artists, & Lerner-Heller Gal., NYC, 1970s. Awards: Tamarind Lithography Workshop fel., 1965; Nat. Arts Endowment sabbatical grant, 1966; Guggenheim Found. fel., 1968

Member: Soc. Am. Artists.

Work: MoMA; WMAA; MMA; LOC; PMA. Commissions: print for peace, Smithsonian Inst., 1967; suite lithographs illus. work of E.T.A. Hoffman, Univ. Chicago Press, 1969; 10 stained glass windows, Keneseth Synagogue, Israel, 1971.

Comments: Preferred media: watercolors, wood, lithography. Teaching: instr., Pratt Inst., 1957-62, asst. prof., 1962-65, assoc. prof., 1965-68, prof., graphic art, 1968-, learning coordr., Univ.-Without-Walls Proj. Publications: illusr., Charades, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1965; auth., "Yes-no, Art-technology," Wilson Libr. Bulletin, Sept., 1966; illusr., Out of the Whirlwind, Union Am. Hebrew Congregations, 1968 & Selected Writings of Hoffman, Univ. Chicago Press, 1969.

Sources: WW73; H.C. Pitz, "Jacob Landau," Current Biography (Dec., 1964); Barry Schwartz, "Tiger of Wrath-Jacob Landau," Arts Soc. (spring-summer, 1971)