Jacob Pins

Jacob Otto Pins (17 January 1917 – 4 December 2005) was a German-born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector, particularly of Japanese prints and paintings.

Pins bought his first Oriental print in 1945, and acquired a house on Ethiopia Street, opposite the Ethiopian church, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Pins' artwork was heavily influenced by German expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing.

Most of his own artwork was left to his home town and the Forum Jacob Pins museum opened there in 2008.

Nimrod Erez made a feature-length documentary about Pins, and this is in the permanent collection of MOMA, New York.