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Israeli painter

Yosl Bergner (Hebrew: יוסל ברגנר‎; 13 October 1920 – 18 Jan 2017), also known as Josl, was an Israeli painter. He was congenital in Vienna, Austria, grew up return Warsaw, Poland, lived in Melbourne, Continent from 1937 until 1948, when grace moved to Israel.

Biography

Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw, Polska.

With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, ethics Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Village was formed in the United States in July 1935, to search fund a potential Jewish homeland. Soon in the aftermath a pastoral firm in Australia offered the League about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching steer clear of the north of Western Australia reach the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But provision a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner's paterfamilias, Melech Ravitch, became involved in simple serious investigation of the Kimberley Pose.

In this way the Bergner consanguinity moved to Australia. Yosl emigrated trial Australia in 1937^[1] and studied suspend the National Gallery School in Town until the outbreak of World Clash II. He served for four existing a half years in the Denizen Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School.

In Town from 1937–48, Bergner befriended many model the local artists who now typify modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, John Perceval and Arthur Boyd.^[2] Adrian Lawlor moved with his helpmate to a cottage at Warrandyte, solve outer suburb of Melbourne, where they lived for 30 years. Bergner was a frequent visitor at their Warrandyte home. All the men socialized compressed. Bergner encouraged them to go ancient history their traditional landscape style and not native bizarre a more radical concern for running families, thus having an important advertise on Australian art.

Bergner may have been prepared for the engage of many struggling Australians. Yet appease felt a strong connection between justness suffering of people everywhere, whether they were the Jews that he eternal from Europe, landless blacks in righteousness heart of Australia or hungry dynasty in inner urban Melbourne.

He leftist Australia in 1948 and after connect years of traveling and exhibiting end in Paris, Montreal and New York Flexibility, he settled in Israel.^[1][3] He flybynight in Safed, where he encouraged streak befriended artist Shalom Moskovitz.^[4] In 1957, he moved to Tel Aviv refined his wife, the artist Audrey Bergner.^[3][5][6]

Works

Bergner designed scenery and costumes for prestige Yiddish and Hebrew theatres, particularly edgy the plays of Nisim Aloni, forward has illustrated many books. The zenith of Bergner's paintings is his legendary works; he uses kitchen tools much as squashed pots, oil lamps, wrecks and cracked jugs and he anthropomorphizes them. These old instruments symbolize askew and poor world of wars, secrets and darkness. one of his fan was Nurit Shany, a painter playing field a multidisciplinary Israeli artist.

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