Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert

[1][2] Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert was born in Hildesheim, Germany, to a poor Orthodox family.

During his childhood he suffered as a result of his family's Lithuanian Jewish (immigrant) origin and was often teased because of his cleft lip.

There he worked for two years in the workshop of Bernhard Friedländer, where he designed and produced silverware and Jewish ceremonial art.

[3] Together with Victor Solomon Reese] he made the sculpture "The Flying Camel", the symbol of the "Levant Fair", under the architect Aryeh Elhanani.

In 1935 he began teaching at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, where he headed the Department of Metal together with jeweler David Heinz Gumbel.

The Twelve Tribes Balustrade (detail), 1940
Rosenblum Building, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University , Mount Scopus , Jerusalem
Inscription and Doors to the Weizmann Institute of Science , 1951-1952 Rehovot