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Otte Wallish (1903–1977) ( ) was an emigre to Israel who established himself as a graphic designer and contributed to the symbolic self-representation of the Jewish state.1Wallish was born in Sudetenland and served in the Czech army. He had jobs with the Jewish National Fund and United Israel Appeal . He married and then emigrated by boat to Palestine in 1934, a time of increasing peril for European Jews. His wife joined him in 1935; a sibling survived the Holocaust and lived in the Czech Republic . The couple had two children and settled in a Herzliya house with Bauhaus furniture. He used the German Wallisch and, after moving to Israel, adopted the English Wallish transliteration of his name in Hebrew. (His first name is often incorrectly cited as Otto. ) During the 1930s and 1940s, Wallish worked on artistic arrangement, statistical graphs and other design aspects for books. In 1929, his own book was published, ABC: Ein Bilderbuch . In 1936, Wallish set up a design studio in a building in Nahalat Binyamin , Tel Aviv, that had been chosen as a national landmark . His design studio doubled as a kind of front for SHA'I , the Haganah 's secret service.2
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Otte Wallish (1903–1977) ( ) was a Czech emigre to Israel who established himself as a graphic designer and contributed to the symbolic self-representation of the Jewish state.
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Otte Wallish (1906–1977) ( ) was a Czech emigre to Israel who established himself as a graphic designer and contributed to the symbolic self-representation of the Jewish state.
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Israeli graphic designer (1906–1977) Otte Wallish ( Hebrew : אוטה וליש ; 1906–1977) was a Czech–Jewish artist and émigré to Mandatory Palestine who established himself as a graphic designer and contributed to the symbolic self-representation of the newly-founded State of Israel as a Jewish state .Born in Znojmo , Austria-Hungary , Wallish studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna before emigrating to Mandatory Palestine in 1934.He played a significant role in shaping the visual identity of the nascent State of Israel , most notably by designing the scroll for the Israeli Declaration of Independence and the country's first postage stamps , known as the Doar Ivri series.Wallish's work extended to various aspects of Israel's national symbolism, including the design of coins, banknotes, medals, and logos for major corporations.He also created posters promoting Zionism and Jewish immigration to Israel .His contributions to Israeli visual culture spanned from the pre-state period through the early decades of independence, making him a key figure in the development of Israeli graphic design and national iconography.
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emigre to israel who established himself as a graphic designer and contributed to the symbolic self-representat
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czech–jewish artist and émigré to mandatory palestine who established himself as a graphic designer and contrib
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