Moshe Murro

Moshe Murro
Photograph of Moshe Murro
Born	1888
Nationality	Israeli, Jewish
Education	Bezalel school, Jerusalem
Known for	Painting
Movement	Israeli art

Moshe Murro was an Israeli artist.

Biography

Moshe Murro was born in 1888. He set up a Kamiya (Amulet) workshop, to restore old ivory or stone amulets at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem between the 1920s–1930s. Moshe Moro died in 1957.

Artistic career

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  Moshe Murro, copper plate
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  Moshe Murro, A Returning Jew in Jerusalem, ivory
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  Moshe Murro, The Scribe, copper plate

There are some works of Moshe Murro which have recently seen light in auction houses. An album with original photographs of more than 50 of his works, brass and bronze embossments, sculpting in ivory and stone accompanied by titles: in the Old City, Eliezer ben Yehuda, Henrietta Szold, Balfour, was recently sold. In addition other items have been up for sale.[1][2]

Teaching

• Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem

External links

• Moshe Murro collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
• "Moshe Murro". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
• Art of Moshe Murro at Europeana. Retrieved February 21, 2012