While serving on the Eastern front in the German Army during WW I, Struck came into contact with the Jewish communities of Galicia and Lithuania. He sketched everything he saw relating to the life of Eastern European Jewry, which he later turned into a book, with a text by Arnold Zweig, titled The Face of East European Jewry.
In 1922 he emigrated to Palestine, settling in Haifa. Struck was a faculty member of the Bezalel art school in Jerusalem and a founding member of the Tel Aviv Museum.