WOLPERT, LUDWIG YEHUDA WOLPERT, LUDWIG YEHUDA (1900–1981),
German sculptor and designer. Wolpert was born in Hildesheim,
Germany, the son of an Orthodox rabbi. In 1916 he went to
Frankfurt-on-the-Main, where he studied at the School for Arts
and Crafts until 1920. After a few years working as a sculptor,
Wolpert registered again at the school and specialized in
metalwork. His teachers, among others, were the Bauhaus artist
Christian Dell and the silversmith, sculptor, and designer of
Judaica Leo Horovitz, son of the Orthodox rabbi Marcus
*Horovitz. Under the guidance of Leo Horovitz, Wolpert became
involved in creating modern Jewish ceremonial art. His famous
Passover set, created in 1930, is made out of silver, ebony, and
glass (replica in the Jewish Museum, New York; the original is
lost) and reveals the strong influence of the Bauhaus designers
of the late 1920s who worked under the slogan "form follows
function." The same concept also guided the creation of a modern
set of Torah silver commissioned by the