News Archive
We Are Open!
Almost there!
We are in our new location, getting organized, hanging
artwork. Waiting for a few needed items before our permit
is approved and we can open.
We're Moving!
The Hittleman Gallery is moving! Our new location will be 8403 West 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90048. As you can see from these photos, we have some work to do before we move in!
We expect to be in our new location in mid-October. Check back on this page
for opening date announcement
Avigdor Arikha, 1929-2010
Avigdor Arikha, who survived a Nazi concentration camp and a near-fatal
wound in Israel's War of Indpendence, died April 29 at his home in Paris.
A brilliant draughtsman, Arikha was considered one of Israel's and Europe's
most important artists. His work can be seen at the Louvre, the Tate Gallery,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
and other major collections. He was named a knight in France's Legion
of Honor.
"I paint not to get a copy of nature but to get with the brush what
I see while I see it."
Michael Hittleman Gallery at Israel Expo 2010
May 2, Samueli Jewish Campus, Irvine, CA
Israel Independence Day show, April 25th, 2010, at Shaarey Zedek Congregation, San Fernando Valley.
In photo, from left, L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz, Michael Hittleman, State Senator Carol Liu and L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky.
Jan Rauchwerger and Michael
Hittleman in Raughwerger's studio in Tel Aviv.
July 2008
Fima (Efraim Roeytenberg) - December
22, 1914 - October 16, 2005
Fima's father worked on the Eastern China Railway.
The family settled in Harbin, China. In 1933 Fima moved to Shanghai where he studied art with Russian
and Viennese teachers.
He eventually studied Chinese calligraphy and philosophy which had a great influence on his subsequent
art and life. In 1949 he left China for Israel. He slowly gained a reputation in Israel and finally
had a hugely successful exhibition at Bertha Urdang's Rina Gallery. It led to his discovery by French
critics and a move to Paris for the next 41 years. He also showed at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
He was critically acclaimed in Israel also and had exhibitions at the Israel Museum and Tel Aviv Museums
as well as the Jewish Museum in New York. He returned to Israel in 2002 and even exhibited in Hong
Kong before his death in 2005. His integrity, the beauty of his brushstrokes and colors and his incorporation
of Chinese street banners and calligraphy made him one of the most unique and entrancing of all Israeli
artists
Read comprehensive Fima Obituary at Guardian
Unlimited.
Jews in Crisis: Israeli Art: 1980 - 2000
The Michael Hittleman Gallery
was chosen by the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles
for a summer-long exhibition entitled "Jews
in Crisis: Israeli Art: 1980 - 2000." The exhibit
was on display in Summer 2002.
