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Joseph Budko
A Life Between Two Worlds Born in Plonsk, Poland, Joseph Budko moved through the early twentieth century with a sensibility shaped by both traditional Jewish education and the rigorous art schools of Europe. His path took him from the study halls of his youth to the art school in Vilna in 1902, and eventually to Berlin in 1910. It was in Berlin that he refined his technical command, studying at the Museum of Arts and Crafts and learnin
g the delicate art of metal-chasing. Under the guidance of Hermann Struck, Budko mastered etching, a medium that would become central to his expressive vocabulary. The trajectory of his life was irrevocably altered by the political shifts of the 1930s. Following the rise of Nazism and his subsequent exile from Germany, he immigrated to Palestine in 1933. This transition brought him into a new landscape, one where he would eventually t…