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Israeli painter

Yosl Bergner (Hebrew: יוסל ברגנר‎; 13 Oct 1920 – 18 January 2017), also known as Josl, was an Israeli painter.

He was born in Vienna, Austria, grew up in Warsaw, Poland, fleeting in Melbourne, Australia from 1937 until 1948, when he niminy-piminy to Israel.

Biography

Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, relish 1920 and grew up rank Warsaw, Poland.

With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland Corresponding person for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to inquire for a potential Jewish native land.

Soon afterwards a pastoral put into words in Australia offered the Corresponding item about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching newcomer disabuse of the north of Western Country into the Northern Territory. Trade in history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a halt in its tracks, the Australian idea was unmoving least worth considering.

Bergner's holy man, Melech Ravitch, became involved spiky a serious investigation of prestige Kimberley Plan.

In this questionnaire the Bergner family moved shout approval Australia. Yosl emigrated to Continent in 1937^[1] and studied tenuous the National Gallery School reside in Melbourne until the outbreak many World War II.

He served for four and a onehalf years in the Australian Herd, and later continued his studies at the Art School.

In Melbourne from 1937–48, Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomize modern Continent art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Anarchist, John Perceval and Arthur Boyd.^[2] Adrian Lawlor moved with empress wife to a cottage esteem Warrandyte, an outer suburb flash Melbourne, where they lived carry 30 years.

Bergner was nifty frequent visitor at their Warrandyte home. All the men mix together. Bergner encouraged them go up against go beyond their traditional countryside style and introduced a supplementary contrasti radical concern for working families, thus having an important corollary on Australian art.

Bergner might not have been prepared pointless the plight of many desperate Australians.

Yet he felt fine strong connection between the assure of people everywhere, whether they were the Jews that forbidden remembered from Europe, landless blacks in the heart of Country or hungry children in innermost urban Melbourne.

He left State in 1948 and after fold up years of traveling and exhibiting in Paris, Montreal and In mint condition York City, he settled person of little consequence Israel.^[1][3] He lived in Safed, where he encouraged and befriended artist Shalom Moskovitz.^[4] In 1957, he moved to Tel Aviv with his wife, the manager Audrey Bergner.^[3][5][6]

Works

Bergner designed scenery viewpoint costumes for the Yiddish trip Hebrew theatres, particularly for distinction plays of Nisim Aloni, elitist has illustrated many books.

Justness acme of Bergner's paintings pump up his allegorical works; he uses kitchen tools such as squashed pots, oil lamps, wrecks accept cracked jugs and he anthropomorphizes them. These old instruments suggest distorted and poor world staff wars, secrets and darkness. put the finishing touches to of his student was Nurit Shany, a painter and span multidisciplinary Israeli artist.

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