Opening of the Siegfried and Irma Ullmann Gallery of Art at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovoth, Israel, was announced here by Dewey D. Stone, Chairman of the Board of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. A $250,000 fund to build the gallery and 96 pictures by distinguished French, Italian, American and other artists, to constitute a permanent initiating collection, were given to the Committee by the Siegfried and Irma Ullmann Foundation of New York. The gallery will occupy the entire top floor of the Anne and Dewey D. Stone Administration Building, opened a year ago on the Rehovoth campus.
The Ullmann Art Collection, which has been shipped to Rehovoth, includes 96 oils, pen and water colors and gouaches. Among the artists represented in the collection are: Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Gromaire, Paul Klee, Fernand Leger, Ben Nicholson, Charles Camoin, Willi Baumeister, Antoni Clave, Gino Severini, Leopold Survage, Auguste Herbin, Morris Davidson, Andre Masson, Andre Lansky. Jean Lurcat, Odilon Redon, and Mario Sironi.
Mr. Siegfried Ullmann, who died in 1965, was a distinguished business leader and philanthropist. During his lifetime he made multimillion dollar gifts to the Weizmann Institute and contributed the funds for building the Institute of Life Sciences, which bears his name.
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