Frank Meisler (1925-2018) Israeli, Mixed Metal Goat Sculpture. Silver and gold tone moveable pieces, including the ears, a bell at the front, and two large testicles at the back. Attached to a marble base with plaque on the front giving the title "Ephraim the Goat" and the artist name and location. Signed and numbered 38/980 on the underbelly. 

Condition: Testicles are cracked. 

Size: 9 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 10 in. 

Frank Meisler was born in the city-state of Danzig in 1925, now known as Gdansk, Poland. The unique status of the city, conferred by the Treaty of Versailles, made it a melting pot for Jews, Christians, and numerous ethnicities and cultures, before being absorbed by the Nazis during the 1939 invasion of Poland. Meisler escaped via Kindertransport and wound up in London, England. His parents perished in Auschwitz, and he joined the Royal Air Force before studying architecture at the University of Manchester. In the late 1950s he moved to Israel, opening a workshop and gallery in the Old City of Jaffa. Many of his statues, monuments, and sculptures depict the struggles and daily life of the Jewish people, and nearly all of them incorporate movement and hidden compartments, symbolic of the Diaspora and the careful way Jews avoided openly practicing their faith for many centuries in order to escape persecution and genocide. He passed away in 2018. 

Testicles are cracked. 

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