{"id":721,"date":"2020-04-23T15:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/?p=721"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:24:39","slug":"elly-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/elly-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"About Elly Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\"><em>Elly Gross, 1921\u20132014, Israeli graphic designer, lettering artist, painter, sculptor and teacher.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Elly_Gross.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-m88Pq0ax\" data-rl_title=\"Elly Gross, undated.\" data-rl_caption=\"Elly Gross, undated.\" title=\"Elly Gross, undated.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Elly_Gross-1024x719.jpg\" alt=\"Elly Gross\" class=\"wp-image-720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Elly_Gross-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Elly_Gross-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Elly_Gross-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Elly_Gross.jpg 1690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elly Gross, undated. <span class=\"photocredit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/he.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"mt-2\"><span class=\"smallcaps\">Born in Austria<\/span> Elly Gross immigrated to Jerusalem in 1939 and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. In the following years she continued to study sculpture, silkscreen printing and painting. During her career she designed a wide range of Hebrew book covers, magazines and publications, posters and corporate identities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indentpara\">Gross and David were both members of the <a href=\" https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/jerusalem-group-of-commercial-artists\/\">Jerusalem Group of Commercial Artists<\/a> and collaborated on design projects. However, very little is known about these ventures.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image mt-4\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ellyGrossCard.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-m88Pq0ax\" data-rl_title=\"Postcard to Elly Gross, 1974.\" data-rl_caption=\"Postcard to Elly Gross, 1974.\" title=\"Postcard to Elly Gross, 1974.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ellyGrossCard-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Postcard to Elly Gross\" class=\"wp-image-771\" style=\"width:768px;height:512px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ellyGrossCard-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ellyGrossCard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ellyGrossCard-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ellyGrossCard.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Postcard to Elly Gross, 1974.<span class=\"photocredit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/archives\/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL003378214\/NLI\">In the collection of the National Library of Israel, ARC. 4* 1883 01 22<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-3\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ellyGrossCard.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-m88Pq0ax\" data-rl_title=\"A business card for Elly Gross.\" data-rl_caption=\"A business card for Elly Gross.\" title=\"A business card for Elly Gross.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ellyGrossCard-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"Elly Gross business card\" class=\"wp-image-4674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ellyGrossCard-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ellyGrossCard-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ellyGrossCard-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ellyGrossCard-1536x956.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ellyGrossCard.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elly Gross\u2019 business card.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elly Gross, 1921\u20132014, Israeli graphic designer, lettering artist, painter, sculptor and teacher. Born in Austria Elly Gross immigrated to Jerusalem in 1939 and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. In the following years she continued to study sculpture, silkscreen printing and painting. During her career she designed a wide range of Hebrew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}