Jacob Pins (1917-2005)
Jacob Pins was born in 1917 in Höxter, Germany. In 1936 he immigrated to Eretz Israel. In 1941 he began studying art with Jacob Steinhardt in Jerusalem. This led to printmaking becoming the main medium in his work. In the second half of the 1940s, he started collecting Japanese art, especially prints. These works influenced his work in terms of the design of the composition. He printed most of his works in his private Jerusalem studio, without using a press. Pins donated his art collection to the Israel Museum, and most of his paintings towards founding a museum in his hometown, Höxter. His artistic estate in the field of printmaking is preserved in the Jerusalem Print Workshop.

Awards And Prizes
1957 Prize for Prints at first Biennale in Tokyo, Japan
1962 Jerusalem Prize, Municipality of Jerusalem
1963 Honorary Fellow, Academy of Drawing Arts, Florence, Italy
1970 Woodcuts of Jacob Pins, The Jerusalem Khan Theatre, Jerusalem
1972 Jacob Pins Woodcuts, Old Jaffa Gallery, Tel Aviv
1975 Jacob Pins – Paintings and Woodcuts, Arta Gallery, Jerusalem
1993 Shoshana Ish-Shalom Prize, Jerusalem
1998 Honorary Fellow, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Solo Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1958 Jacob Pins – Wood-cuts, Haifa Museum of Art
1960 Jacob Pins: Woodcuts, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
1975 Jacob Pins – Paintings and Woodcuts, Arta Gallery, Jerusalem
1985 Apocalypse 1946, Debel Gallery, Jerusalem
1985 Pins: Woodcuts 1942-1985, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1991 Museum of Printing Art, Safed
1995 Jacob Pins Woodcuts, The Korin Maman Ashdod Museum, Ashdod
1996 Works 1986-1996, Safrai Gallery, Jerusalem
1998 Jacob Pins – Wood Cuts, The Bar David Museum for Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Bara’am
2000 Jacob Pins Woodcuts, Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004 Jacob Pins: Woodcuts for ‘Michael Kolhaas’ by Heinrich von Kleist, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2017 European Imprint: Jacob Pins and German Expressionism, Isarel Museum, Jerusalem

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1966 Israeli Painters 6, Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1967 The First Exhibition of Israeli Graphic-Art, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
1967 The First Exhibition of Israeli Graphic-Art, Haifa Museum of Moderm Art, Haifa
1973 Graphic Art in Israel Today, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1982 The Print Art in Israel, Omanot Laam, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1986 Landscape and Nature: Contemporary Israeli Prints from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, High Court of Australia, Canberra, Australia
1988 Woodcuts, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1997 From East, From West, From Wood: 5 Israeli Woodcut Artists, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2004 Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2007 On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2010 Graphic arts – Group Exhibition, Nora Art Gallery, Jerusalem
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2015 100 Year of Printmaking in Israel – The Major Series, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2017 In the Body of the Wood: Winners of the Jacob Pins Prize for an Israeli Graphic Artist, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem