Description: Rabbi Pinchas Kahlenberg 1912, Galicia, Eastern Europe - 1980, Brussels, Belgium The Market Square and Statue of St. Odile in Obernai (Alsace), 1950s Original Hand-Signed Watercolor - Circa the 1950sArtist Name: Pinchas Kahlenberg Title: The Market Square and Statue of St. Odile in Obernai (Alsace), 1950s Signature Description: Hand-signed lower left Technique: Watercolor on paper Size: 37 x 55 cm / 14.57" x 21.65" inch Frame: The painting is unframed Condition: Good condition with no tears, rips, holes, wrinkles, repairs, paint peelings or losses, a small fragment is missing at the upper left corner (invisible once re-framed).Artist's Biography:Rabbi Pinchas Kahlenberg (1912, Galicia, Eastern Europe - 1980, Brussels, Belgium)Pinchas Kalhenberg was born in Romania in 1912 to a family of rabbis, he became the main ministre-officiant of the Communauté israélite de Bruxelles, where he would work his entire career. This chief chaplain for the Jewish religion in the Belgian army was also a gifted singer, a painter, journalist and Zionist militant. He was decorated as Chevalier de l’Ordre de Léopold, Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne and Chevalier de l’Ordre de Léopold II. He died in Brussels on 7 May 1980. Pinchas Kalhenberg is a French officiating minister, of Galician (Polish) origin. He is the heir to a long line of Hasidic rabbis. His father, Moïse Kalhenberg, emigrated to France and became the Hasidic rabbi of Metz. His parents and grandfather were deported during the war, and murdered in Auschwitz. His older brother Marc Kalhenberg was a rabbi in Belfort and then in Brussels.Pinchas Kalhenberg began his career as a 'hazan (cantor) in Bionville in Lorraine, then he settled in Brussels before the Second World War; where he was appointed Prime Minister officiating at the Great Synagogue of Brussels. He was also chaplain of the Burial Society, chaplain of the Hospitals, chaplain of the Prisons, and chief chaplain of the Jewish Cult with the Belgian Army. His brother Marc was the Grand Rabin of Brussels. On the occasion of the anniversary of his forty years of service, he was decorated with the insignia of the Order of the Crown.Apart from his liturgical and community activities, he was a recognized artist in the fields of drawing, painting, and especially watercolor, and his works were shown in several exhibitions. In exchanges of letters with the German Jewish painter Ludwig Meidner, one can perceive the interests of Pinchas Kahlenberg, in particular on the subject of the relationship between (Orthodox) Judaism and painting, himself also being a watercolourist. Pinchas Kahlenberg (1912, Galicia (Eastern Europe) – 1980, Brussels, Belgium) was a French rabbi and hazzan of Galician (Polish) origin. He was the son of the Hasidic Rabbi Moses Kahlenberg, rabbi in Metz, and the brother of Rabbi Marc Kahlenberg, the rabbi of Brussels.LifePinchas Kahlenberg was born in 1912. He was the son of Rabbi Moses Kalhenberg and Chana Gittel Kahlenberg, née Teitelbaum (7 July 1883 - September 1942). His paternal grandfather was Rabbi Avraham Yehudah Feibush Kahlenberg, a Posseq at the court of the Kopycznitzer Rebbe. His maternal grandfather was Rabbi Yisrael Mordechai Teitelbaum, a Hasid from Husyatin. Pinchas Kahlenberg comes from a long line of rabbis and follows their path. His origins are Hasidic, but he officiates in more modern communities. His brother, Marc Kalhenberg, is the rabbi of Brussels.Pinchas Kahlenberg has a dual training: as a rabbi and a hazzan.Pinchas Kahlenberg's parents were interned at the Camp de la Lande de Monts, in Monts, in Indre-et-Loire, after taking refuge in Bordeaux, after the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, by the Nazis. They were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz, by Convoy No. 31 of September 11, 1942 and murdered the day after their arrival at Auschwitz. A week later, his paternal grandfather was also murdered.The two brothers, Marc and Pinchas Kahlenberg, survived the war but remained marked by the Shoah.Pinchas Kahlenberg participated in the development of the religious youth group, Bné Akiba européen, by giving regular lectures.In exchanges of letters with the German Jewish painter Ludwig Meidner, one can perceive Pinchas Kahlenberg's interests, in particular on the subject of the relations between (Orthodox) Judaism and painting, he himself being also a watercolorist. Pinchas Kahlenberg (né en 1912 et mort en 1980) est un rabbin et un hazzan français, d'origine galicienne (polonaise). Il est le fils du rabbin hassidique Moïse Kahlenberg, rabbin à Metz, et le frère du rabbin Marc Kahlenberg, le rabbin de Bruxelles.Éléments biographiquesPinchas Kahlenberg est né en 1912. Il est le fils du rabbin Moïse Kalhenberg et de Chana Gittel Kahlenberg, née Teitelbaum (7 juillet 1883-septembre 1942). Son grand-père paternel est le rabbin Avraham Yehudah Feibush Kahlenberg, un Posseq à la cour du Kopycznitzer Rebbe. Son grand-père maternel est le rabbin Yisrael Mordechai Teitelbaum, un hassid de Husyatin. Pinchas Kahlenberg est issu d'une longue lignée de rabbins et il suit leur voie. Ses origines sont hassidiques, mais il officie dans des communautés plus modernes. Son frère, Marc Kalhenberg, est le rabbin de Bruxelles.Pinchas Kahlenberg a une double formation: de rabbin et de hazzan.Les parents de Pinchas Kahlenberg sont internés au Camp de la Lande de Monts, à Monts, en Indre-et-Loire, après s'être réfugiés à Bordeaux, après l'annexation de l'Alsace-Lorraine, par les nazis. Ils sont déportés de Drancy vers Auschwitz, par le Convoi no 31 du 11 septembre 1942 et assassinés au lendemain de leur arrivée à Auschwitz. Une semaine plus tard, son grand-père paternel est lui aussi assassiné.Les deux frères, Marc et Pinchas Kahlenberg, survivent à la guerre mais restent marqués par la Shoah.Pinchas Kahlenberg participe au développement du groupe de jeunesse religieuse, Bné Akiba européen, en donnant des conférences régulières.Dans des échanges de lettres avec le peintre juif allemand Ludwig Meidner, on peut percevoir les intérêts de Pinchas Kahlenberg, en particulier au sujet des relations entre le judaïsme (orthodoxe) et la peinture, lui-même étant aussi un aquarelliste.Pinchas Kalhenberg est un ministre officiant français, d'origine galicienne (polonaise). Il est l'héritier d'une longue lignée de rabbins hassidiques. Son père, Moïse Kalhenberg, a émigré en France et il est devenu le rabbin hassidique de Metz. Ses parents et son grand-père ont été déportés pendant la guerre, et assassinés à Auschwitz. Son frère aîné Marc Kalhenberg a été rabbin à Belfort puis à Bruxelles.Pinchas Kalhenberg commence sa carrière de 'hazan (chantre) à Bionville en Lorraine, puis il s'établit à Bruxelles avant la deuxième guerre mondiale; où il est. nommé Premier ministre officiant de la Grande Synagogue de Bruxelles. Il est aussi aumônier de la Société d'Inhumation, aumônier des Hôpitaux, aumônier des Prisons, et aumônier en chef du Culte israélite auprès de l'Armée belge. A l'occasion de l'anniversaire de ses quarante années de services, il a été décoré des insignes de l'Odre de la Couronne.En dehors de ses activités liturgiques et communautaires, c'était un artiste reconnu dans les domaines du dessin, de la peinture, et surtout de l'aquarelle, et ses oeuvres ont été montrées dans plusieurs expositions. Additional Information:Pinkas Kahlenbergpar André Neher (1914–1988), scholar and philosopherExtrait d'une brochure éditée par la Communauté Israélite de Bruxelles à l'occasion de ses 40 ans de serviceIl est difficile, en parlant d'un ami auquel vous lient des souvenirs qui remontent à une commune enfance, de ne pas associer d'emblée à l'évocation beaucoup d'émotion et de poésie. Mais comment échapper à ce risque lorsqu'on se propose de rendre un timide hommage à Pinkas Kahlenberg, dont la personnalité offre une si prenante synthèse de réel et d'irréel, de solide talent et de géniale sensibilité, de don d'observation et de rêve clair obscur ? Le métier et l'art se conjuguent en lui, ainsi que ces deux aspects caractéristiques de, l'authentique vocation juive ; l'acceptation du devoir quotidien et la superbe envolée vers les ferveurs messianiques.Pour moi, la "carrière" de 'hazan de Pinkas Kahlenberg reste rattachée à un souvenir de jeunesse. C'était à Obernai, où mon père, zikhrônô livraha, était alors Parness. Une maladie du ministre officiant exigeait qu'un "baal-tephilla" le remplaçât pour l'office du vendredi soir. On fit appel au petit Pinkas, âgé de dix ans ! Pour la communauté d'Obernai, ce fut une révélation. Pour Pinkas, la promesse d'une grande carrière, que mon père, au goût artistique si sûr, lui prédit alors. Il avait vu vrai. Se jouant de toutes les difficultés, matérielles ou musicales, la voix de Pinkas prenait de l'ampleur, de l'assurance, et bientôt ce timbre si personnel, qui a fait de lui, rapidement, l'un des 'hazanim les plus éminents de notre époque. Lorsque Pinkas Kahlenberg chante, tout se tait autour de lui. L'instrument le plus nuancé, le chœur le plus cultivé, sont comme ramassés et transmutés par sa voix à laquelle ils servent de silencieux accompagnement. Et lorsque Pinkas Kahlenberg prie, cette voix saisit en une fervente brassée l'émotion de l'assemblée, et la porte devant Dieu, avec lequel elle entame un bouleversant dialogue.Ce sacerdoce liturgique suffirait à remplir dignement la vie d'un 'hazan. Mais la personnalité de Pinkas Kahlenberg est trop riche et diversifiée pour s'en satisfaire.Juif, Pinkas Kahlenberg ne l'est pas seulement lorsqu'il officie sur l'Almemor. Il l'est dans chaque démarche de sa vie, vouée à l'observance de la Torah et des mitsvoth, dont la valeur et le sens lui ont été enseignés très tôt, par un père rabbin, qui fut un véritable Sage, dont la mémoire bénie auréole ses fils, qui lui rendent un égal honneur.''Hazan, il ne l'est pas seulement à l'heure des offices, mais dans les multiples activités pour lesquelles la vie de la communauté sollicite ses talents et auxquelles il se donne avec un enthousiasme juvénile et un sérieux qu'aucune difficulté ne saurait ébrécher : l'enseignement, l'aumônerie militaire, la direction de la jeunesse, les œuvres sociales...Artiste, il ne l'est pas seulement par la voix, Dieu l'a comblé de dons qui suffiraient, chacun pris à part, à l'épanouissement d'une personnalité. Chez Pinkas Kahlenberg, ces dons s'entrelacent, et l'on reste stupéfait devant leur magnifique plénitude. Avez-vous eu le privilège de lire, ou mieux encore d'entendre lire par l'auteur quelques-uns de ces contes et nouvelles de Pinkas Kahlenberg, gonflés d'une poésie, d'une délicatesse littéraire, d'un humour et d'une émotion, qui font penser à Perets et à Scholem Aleichem et dont on souhaiterait vivement qu'ils soient publiés en volume ? Les petites communautés de Lorraine et d'Alsace, en particulier, y sentiraient battre le cœur d'un poète qui a su les comprendre avec une extraordinaire sensibilité.Mais ce sont les yeux et les mains de Pinkas Kahlenberg que Dieu a tout particulièrement favorisés en leur permettant de devenir les instruments d'une intense âme d'artiste. Le nom de Pinkas Kahlenberg compte d'ores et déjà parmi ceux des grands peintres juifs de notre temps. Ses portraits, ses esquisses, ses paysages aux couleurs vives et somptueuses, aux lignes vigoureuses et pourtant délicates, ont ce style unique et personnel qui est la marque du génie. L'on retrouve cette marque dans les dessins et les céramiques, qui ne sont pour Pinkas Kahlenberg qu'activités de loisirs ou de vacances; mais tout ce qu'il touche et crée se revêt de charme expressif et de beauté.Entre toutes ces facettes d'une personnalité peut-on établir une échelle de valeurs ? Avec les Pirké Avoth, nous serions tentés de dire qu'il en est une qui les dépasse parce qu'elle les inclut toutes et les fait miroiter de leurs vrais feux : c'est le bon cœur. Le bon cœur Juif de Pinkas Kahlenberg, dont les lointains et les proches subissent l'attrait et le rayonnement, et dont une fraternelle expérience m'a permis, comme à tant d'autres, d'apprécier les richesses discrètes, irremplaçables, inépuisables... Pinkas Kahlenberg by André Neher (1914–1988), scholar and philosopherExtract from a brochure published by the Jewish Community of Brussels on the occasion of his 40 years of serviceIt is difficult, when speaking of a friend to whom you are linked by memories that go back to a shared childhood, not to immediately associate with the evocation a great deal of emotion and poetry. But how can we avoid this risk when we intend to pay a timid tribute to Pinkas Kahlenberg, whose personality offers such a captivating synthesis of the real and the unreal, of solid talent and brilliant sensitivity, of the gift of observation and of chiaroscuro dream? The profession and the art are combined in him, as well as these two characteristic aspects of the authentic Jewish vocation: the acceptance of daily duty and the superb flight towards messianic fervor.For me, Pinkas Kahlenberg's "career" as a chazan remains linked to a memory from my youth. It was in Obernai, where my father, a zikhrônô livraha, was then Parness. An illness of the officiating minister required that a "baal-tephilla" replace him for the Friday evening service. Little Pinkas, aged ten, was called upon! For the Obernai community, it was a revelation. For Pinkas, the promise of a great career, which my father, with such sure artistic taste, predicted for him at the time. He had seen the truth. Playing with all the difficulties, material or musical, Pinkas' voice gained breadth, assurance, and soon that very personal timbre, which quickly made him one of the most eminent chazanim of our time. When Pinkas Kahlenberg sings, everything around him falls silent. The most nuanced instrument, the most cultivated choir, are as if gathered and transmuted by his voice to which they serve as silent accompaniment. And when Pinkas Kahlenberg prays, this voice seizes in a fervent stirring the emotion of the assembly, and carries it before God, with whom it begins a moving dialogue.This liturgical priesthood would be enough to fill worthily the life of a 'hazan. But the personality of Pinkas Kahlenberg is too rich and diversified to be satisfied with it.A Jew, Pinkas Kahlenberg is not only when he officiates on the Almemor. He is in every step of his life, dedicated to the observance of the Torah and the mitzvoth, the value and meaning of which were taught to him very early, by a rabbi father, who was a true Sage, whose blessed memory surrounds his sons, who pay him equal honor.''Hazan, he is not only at the time of services, but in the multiple activities for which the life of the community calls upon his talents and to which he gives himself with a youthful enthusiasm and a seriousness that no difficulty could undermine: teaching, military chaplaincy, youth leadership, social works...He is not an artist only by his voice; God has filled him with gifts that would be sufficient, each taken separately, for a personality to blossom. In Pinkas Kahlenberg, these gifts are intertwined, and one remains astounded by their magnificent plenitude. Have you had the privilege of reading, or better yet of hearing the author read some of these tales and short stories by Pinkas Kahlenberg, full of poetry, literary delicacy, humor and emotion, which bring to mind Perets and Scholem Aleichem and which one would very much like to see published in volume? The small communities of Lorraine and Alsace, in particular, would feel the heart of a poet beating there who knew how to understand them with extraordinary sensitivity. But it is the eyes and hands of Pinkas Kahlenberg that God has especially favored by allowing them to become the instruments of an intense artist's soul. The name of Pinkas Kahlenberg is already among those of the great Jewish painters of our time. His portraits, his sketches, his landscapes with their bright and sumptuous colors, their vigorous and yet delicate lines, have that unique and personal style that is the mark of genius. We find this mark in the drawings and ceramics, which for Pinkas Kahlenberg are only leisure or vacation activities; but everything he touches and creates is clothed in expressive charm and beauty. Among all these facets of a personality can we establish a scale of values? With the Pirké Avoth, we would be tempted to say that there is one that surpasses them all because it includes them all and makes them sparkle with their true fires: it is the good heart. The good Jewish heart of Pinkas Kahlenberg, whose attraction and radiance are felt by those far and near, and whose fraternal experience has allowed me, as it has so many others, to appreciate the discreet, irreplaceable, inexhaustible riches.Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard), Bank Cheque. If you wish to send a personal cheque, please note that the item will not be shipped until the cheque clears. Shipping&Handling: All items are sent through registered mail or by E.M.S. 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Artist: Pinchas Kahlenberg
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Title: Market Square and Statue of St. Odile in Obernai (Alsace), 1950s
Period: Post-War (1940-1970)
Region of Origin: Poland
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Cityscapes, Market Square and Statue of St. Odile in Obernai (Alsace)
Type: Painting
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Style: Modernism, Post-Impressionism, Mid-century Modern
Theme: Cities & Towns, Obernai, Alsace, France
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Watercolor Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Time Period Produced: 1950-1959
