WOLF KIBEL LIPPY LIPSHITZ, Palm Studios, a retrospective exhibition at the South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town, 11 December 2025

132pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Hoberman & South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town, 2025

Published to accompany the retrospective exhibition, South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town, December 2025 - March 2026.

During the 1930s Wolf Kibel and Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, two seminal South African Jewish artists, shared a studio in Roeland Street, Cape Town, which they named Palm Studios.

Includes essays by Jay van den Berg, Hayden Proud, Anna Tietze, Ayala Nir and Phillippa Duncan.

Wolf Kibel (1903–1938) was born in Poland. At the age of 20, he fled to Vienna, Austria, to avoid military conscription, where he was exposed to modern art and received some informal training. Between 1925 and 1929 Kibel lived in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, before coming to South Africa and settling in Cape Town.

Israel-Isaac Lipshitz, better known as Lippy Lipshitz(1903–1980) was born in Lithuania and moved with his family to Cape Town in 1908. In 1950, he took up a teaching post at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, where he became Assistant Professor in 1964. He moved to Israel in 1978, where he lived until his death.