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Client: Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel
Location: Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Designer: Jacob Landau
Scope of Project:
10 large leaded stained glass windows.
Techniques Utilized:
Leaded stained glass, acid etched flashed glass,
silver stain, hand painted fired glasses, mouth blown antique glasses,
Norman slab glass
Additional Information:
The Willet Hauser Studios association with Jacob Landau began when he was commissioned by Keneseth
Israel Reform Synagogue in Philadelphia to create paintings that were to be
interpreted into stained glass windows. The congregation had conducted a
search for a well-known artist to design the windows. Landau’s work deals
with the universal concerns of Turmoil, Symbiosis, Love and Grief. His
depictions of the scriptural prophets exhibited in his paintings for these
windows bring them into the present. He was called a reformist, a
visionary. So were these prophets.
In that Landau had no previous experience in designing stained glass, Benoit Gisoul
translated his drawings into original cartoons and the Willet Hauser Studios
fabricated the windows.
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