STERN GALLERY ARTIST PORTFOLIO

1891-1974

Blum was born in Czechoslovakia. In his youth he excelled in sports and was a founding member of "Maccabi" in Czechoslovakia. He trained in painting in Prague, Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam, and immigrated to Israel in 1923. Bloom was an academic painter who painted European-style realistic images. He usually painted Israel's landscapes. His favorite subjects were of Jerusalem, the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea. In 1937 he painted the portrait of Flinders Petrie, the father of modern archeology, who lived in Jerusalem from 1926 to 1942. The picture was given by his daughter on a long-term loan to the Archaeology Library of Hebrew University in Jerusalem found in Mount Scopus.