- Object Name:
- Hanukkah Lamp
- Artist/Maker:
- Richard Meier
- Bio:
- American, b. 1935
- Title:
- Architectonic Menorah
- Place Made:
- New York, United States
- Date:
- 1985
- Medium:
- Tin-coated copper
- Dimensions:
- 11 13/16 × 13 3/4 × 2 in. (30 × 34.9 × 5.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gift of Samuel and Rose Riemer Private Foundation
- Accession Number:
- 1998-31
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Richard Meier designed each candleholder of the Hanukkah lamp to represent an architectural style from various moments of persecution in Jewish history. The holder for the first night depicts an Egyptian obelisk; the last one evokes watchtowers from German concentration camps. Meier writes that the candleholders are "reminders of the common past and struggles that Jewish people have suffered and their resilience and strength" which the Hanukkah story embodies.
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