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Aharon Avni. b. 1906, Russia. Immigrated 1925. Studies: Art Academy, Moscow; Bezalel, Jerusalem. Teaching: 1936 Opened Histadrut Studio for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv, (Avni Institute), directed this until his death. Prizes: Histadrut Prize; 1947-48 Dizengoff Prize. Died 1951.
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Mordechai Avniel, Painter and Lawyer. b. 1900, Russia. Immigrated 1921. Studies: 1913-17 Art School, Katrinburg, Russia; 1917-19 High School for Art, Katrinburg; 1923 Bezalel, Jerusalem. Teaching: 1924-28 Bezalel, directed and taught in sculpture department. Prizes: 1952 Herman Struck Prize; 1958 10th Anniversary Prize for Water Colours, Ramat Gan; 1961 Histadrut Prize; 1977 First Prize Haifa Municipality. From 1930 lived in Haifa. 1958 Participated in Venice Biennale. His works are in museums and collections in Isael and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum, New York and Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
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Adi Itzik Born 1940 in Safed.
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Adonin Alexander was born in 1949 in Lugansk Region of Ukraine, USSR. Repatriated to Israel in 1991.
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Azuz Haim , a renowned Israeli sculptor ,was born in Istanbul, Turkey . A self-taught artist,who began sculpting at the age of fourteen, Azuz is a member of the Painters & Sculptors Association of Israel.He lives in the Artist`s Quarter in Safed, where he maintains a studio/gallery and a permanent collection . His 16-foot sculpture "The Flower", is a focal point of Safed`s Cultural Center. "The Burning Bush", a 13-foot piece sculpted out of aluminum , adorns the city`s main art exhibit. Azuz's work has been exhibited at Yad Labanim in Tel-Aviv, the Petach-Tikva Museum and in various galleries in Israel. A 20-foot sculpture of bronze,stainless steel and marble, "Cactus", stands in one of the public buildings in Beer-Sheva. His work can also be found in private collections around the world, including the U.S, Canada, Maxico, Venezuela, Peru, Australia, South Africa and Europe. He has participated in Artexpo in New York since 1987.
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Alisia Arbel Graduate of Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem. Studied painting with M. Ardon, sculpture with R. Lehman. Went on to study in Paris London, and Salzburg. Served in the army during the war of independence. Works in Rock Crystal and wood in sculpture. In art, watercolors and woodcut. Teachers and lectures Art. Received "Struck" prize, and Haifa Artist award 96, Distinguished Haifa Artist award 97. Is member of Israelis Artists Association.
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nat Zehavi - Painter 6.6.74
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Avi Feiler, an Israeli and international artist, is one of the most important figurative artists of the modern era and Fantastic Art. About his work he says; it is a reminder and an anchor for the culture inherent in the art of painting, a culture of conscious creation, as in the Story of Creation, to bring from nothingness-substance, to create dimensions through layers of light, to create warm and exciting windows to pass through. The art of painting which requires words creates a limiting scale. The real source of art is that which is before words, that which is derived from my " well of butterflies", causing the heart flutter" it comes up choking at the throat, it lights stars in the eyes, a feeling of life, love, beauty. There is already enough negative energy on the scales of our existence. I consciously choose to create positive energy through my work.
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Avi Ganor Born in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, Avi Ganor studied aeronautics at the Technion in Haifa and then photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Pratt Institute in N.Y. He has exhibited extensively in Israel and abroad and had solo exhibitions at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He has taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, at Camera Obscura and Beit Zvi. He is one of the founders of the Photography Biennale at Ein Harod and of the computerized imaging unit at Camera Obscura. In 1985 he was awarded the Enrique Kavlin Photography Prize of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
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Abbu Shkara Br'
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Abel Pann was born in Latvia in 1883. His father was a rabbi and the head of a yeshiva (Jewish religious school). At an early age he showed interest in drawing and studied in an art school in Odessa. In 1903, he moved to Paris and continued his studies in an art academy. One of his teachers was the French painter Adolphe William Bourguereau. His works aroused much interest, winning him prizes and medals. His works were exhibited together with those of Renoir and Matisse. He contributed to humoristic journals and was a member of the "Salon des Humoristes" in Paris. In the course of time he became well-known in the French capital. In 1913, he went to Palestine and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art for a year. A few weeks before World War I broke out, he traveled to Paris, intending to return to Palestine shortly afterwards. Because of the war he was prevented from doing so. When it became known that pogroms had taken place in Russia, he drew paintings on that theme, his purpose being to print reproductions of them. However, the Russian Minister in Paris was informed of this project and succeeded in convincing the French government of the necessity to forbid the printing. During the war, he painted war subjects, depicting French patriotism and the French war effort. In 1917, he traveled to the United States where the Union of Museums organized exhibitions of his works in several cities. In 1920, he returned to Palestine to settle permanently and until 1924 taught again at Bezalel. In 1921, he established the first lithographic installation in Palestine, where lithographs of his works were made. Even before that date he began to paint biblical themes but thereafter dedicated his work mainly to the Bible. Now he used pastel colors, whereas formerly he had painted in oil. He viewed the Bible realistically and the people and landscapes of his paintings are of the Orient, as he saw them in Palestine. This is one of the innovations of his work. One of his critics pointed out that "this time the Bible is seen by the eyes of Shem and not of Japhet and there is a feeling that this is the correct interpretation." In the twenties and thirties he held many exhibitions in Western and Central Europe. His works, including reproductions of them, are widely known all over the world. In the course of World War II, he drew paintings of the Holocaust, but at the same time continued to paint themes of Eretz Israel. Art critic David Giladi said of him: "Had Abel Pann not seen his vocation as being specially Jewish, his name might have been among those inscribed in letters of gold in the pantheon of French art".Today, Pann occupies a central place among the masters of Eretz Israel. His works increase in value and are much sought after by collectors all over the world. In 1987, a major exhibition accompanied by an important and beautiful catalogue was presentd by Mayanot Gallery. It was the first of a series of fine shows of the works of early 20th century Israeli Masters shown by Mayanot Gallery. In1989, Mayanot published "The Five Books of Moses" with 84 color plates from the work of Abel Pann (in Hebrew, English and French). In 1996, a second edition was published. Mayanot is producing a new publication of Abel Pann`s works on pogroms.
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Abraham Naton born in Russia in 1906, immigrated in 1935, died in 1959 Naton's work, prior to his joining the New Horizons group, was figurative representations in a low-keyed style and a dark range of colors. In the late 1940s several of the artists affiliated with New Horizons, among them Naton, Marcel Janco, and Aharon Kahana, evolbed a geometric alternative to the lyrical-abstract mode of other members of the group. Naton's paintings now displayed a stylized geometric-linear conception, halfway between figuration and abstraction. He painted schematic figures delineated by distinct but sketchy contours formin simple, pyramidial compositions in a color scale reduced to gray and muddy blue. The figurative element was gradually to disappear and from the 1950s on, Naton's work was executed solely by means of his characteristic, almost graphic line, forming abstract compositions of juxtaposed geometric planes. Even so, these paintings sometimes invite interpretation of a motif which, however tenous, seems to transpire from the non-objective context.
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Aharon Kahana Painting, 1950s born in Germany in 1905, immigrated in 1934, died in 1967 Kahana's work is dominated by the Canaanite trend, conceived in the 1930s by a group of painters and sculptors in a quest to revive the affinity of the Jewish People with its country of origin and to restrike roots in the Middle Eastern region generally. They looked for subject matter in the Old Testament and were inspired by the archeological finds from the ancient lands of the East. The "Canaanite" twist of their depiction of the biblical motifs invested their work with connotations far removed from the Jewish tradition, and the artists were consequently accused of idolatry. Until the 1940s, Kahana was anchored in figurative painting. Gradually, in correspondence with the outlook of the New Horizons group (of which Kahana was a founding member), the geometric forms in his work took on an abstract aspect, suggesting mythological symbols engraved on a stone tablet. The untitled painting at first sight appears to be abstract. A closerlook reveals in the center of the composition a wide-shouldered figure, looking like a mythological deity on an ancient Assyrian relief. The color range recalls that of a mosaic images and ceramics from the ancient East.
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Aharon Messeg Capernaum born in Iraq in 1942, immigrated in 1951 Messeg depicts the rural scenery of his home surroundings in watercolors and oils. He says that he maintains a dialogue with day-to-day existence and seeks to become one with the rhythms he senses around him. The landscape is composed of primary, emotionally tinged forms, the subject matter reduced to linear forms and broad planes of color. Rats and birds, fields, buildings, and trees are represented in paintings steering a midway course between figuration and abstraction, perspectival depth and flatness, and alternately worked with opaque or transparent colors, smoothly finished or roughened by scratches and incisions. The house - that of his home in the vicinity of Tel Aviv, as well a house on the shore of the sea of Galilee to which he often retreated - is a recurring motif in Messeg's work. In Capernahum the building, rising massively and integrating with the nocturnal landscape, is suggestive of the proverb "My home is my castle"
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AHARON SHAUL SHUR (1864-1945) Aharon Shaul Shur was one of the earliest teachers at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem. Shur was born in White Russia and began his art studies in Vilna at the age of 18. He later attended the Academy in Vienna and in 1888 went to Berlin and graduated from the Academy there. He taught in Berlin until an invitation to Bezalel arrived in early 1913. By Passover of that year Shur had moved with his family to Jerusalem. His works reflect the effect the move to Eretz Israel had on Shur; and he in turn had an effect on the art life of his times. His early pre-Palestinian portraits are severely academic. His portraits reflect the influence of Parisian impressionism rather than the rigid academism of the north. After 1913, everything changed. Shur, like many other arrivals, fell under the spell of the picturesque, going in heavily for a realistic, rigidly defined romantic orientalism that crystallized by the early twenties. Shur was a fine colorist, despite his tendency to fall for the acidic yellows that pervaded much of the painting and haggada illustration of the period. But Shur like early 20th century Israeli Masters, is shown at Mayanot Gallery. For 12 years he headed the enameling department, and taught the art of the miniature and painting in watercolors. During the war years he replaced the exiled Prof. Schatz as Director of the School. When Bezalel closed in 1925 (it was not to reopen until the thirties) Shur continued teaching at various educational institutions until his retirement in 1940. He died in Jerusalem five years later.
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Ahuva Klain
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Akiva Goren
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