 |
||
Yosl Bergner (b. 1920 Vienna). One of the most beloved of all Israeli artists. Bergner grew up in Warsaw and moved to Australia in 1937 where he studied art and served in the army. In the late forties he traveled to Paris, Montreal and New York to study art. He emigrated to Israel in 1950. He uses symbols like kitchen utensils and butterflies to symbolize a lost community. He has many works of haunted children some in party hats searching for their lost youth. His powerful images have won him major public mural commissions and he has won his country’s top honor, the Israel Prize.
|
||