Yosl Bergner is one of Israel’s most distinguished and important artists. His art has a distinctly fabulous, mystical and sometimes religious subject focus. His father was a poet who translated some of Franz Kafka’s books into Yiddish, his fantastic images influenced future Yosl Bergner’s paintings. After…
Zvi Malnovitzer is an expressionist contemporary Israeli artist. The painter was grown up in the religious society and managed to connect two separate worlds of arts and Judaism. Particularly, his main themes are Haredi Judaism, Holocaust and Exile. The education in Europe provided him with all…
Zvi Malnovitzer is an expressionist contemporary Israeli artist. The painter was grown up in the religious society and managed to connect two separate worlds of arts and Judaism. Particularly, his main themes are Haredi Judaism, Holocaust and Exile. The education in Europe provided him with all…
Zvi Raphaeli beautifully depicted ultraorthodox neighborhood Mea Shearim. Its name means hundredfold. To be precise, it comes from the quote "Isaac sowed in that land, and in that year, he reaped a hundredfold (מאה שערים, mea shearim); God had blessed him". Especially, the impressionistic painting shows a…
David Sharir was born in Tel-Aviv in in 1938 to Russian immigrants. After studies in Tel-Aviv at the Avni Institute, the artist imaginative theater set designer furthered his education in Italy at the Academia delle Belle Arte in Florence and at the university of Rome.…