Avni Institute of Art and Design
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The Avni Institute of Art and Design is an Israel
i art school
located in Tel Aviv
. The institute is known for teaching and employing many well known Israeli artists and designers.
The school was established in 1936 as the Studia by a group of Jewish artists. Among these founders was Aharon Avni, who became the first school director. After Avni's death the school was renamed the Avni Institute.
In addition to an Avni graduate degree in several art and design branches, as well as in architecture, students at the school can receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in collaboration with the Open University of Israel
.
The Avni Institute occupies several buildings along the Eilat Road in South Tel Aviv. The buildings are named after notable teachers at the school who have died. The school includes a large gallery space where students exhibit their works. Around the school developed a major Israeli cluster of arts supplies businesses.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i art school
Art school
Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...
located in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
. The institute is known for teaching and employing many well known Israeli artists and designers.
The school was established in 1936 as the Studia by a group of Jewish artists. Among these founders was Aharon Avni, who became the first school director. After Avni's death the school was renamed the Avni Institute.
In addition to an Avni graduate degree in several art and design branches, as well as in architecture, students at the school can receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in collaboration with the Open University of Israel
Open University of Israel
The Open University of Israel is a distance-education university in Israel. , the Open University taught around 39,000 students.The Open University of Israel has more students than any other academic institution in Israel. The administration is based in the city of Ra'anana. Students from all over...
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The Avni Institute occupies several buildings along the Eilat Road in South Tel Aviv. The buildings are named after notable teachers at the school who have died. The school includes a large gallery space where students exhibit their works. Around the school developed a major Israeli cluster of arts supplies businesses.
Faculty
- Tuvia BeeriTuvia BeeriTuvia Beeri is a Czech-Israeli painter.Beeri immigrated to Israel in 1948. He studied in 1957 at the Oranim Art Institute in Qiryat Tivon, with Marcel Janco and Yaakov Wexler and from 1961 to 1963 with Johnny Friedlaender at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
- Bianca Eshel Gershuni (also an alum)
- Pinchas Cohen GanPinchas Cohen GanPinchas Cohen Gan is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist.-Biography:Pinhas Cohen Gan was born in Meknes, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel in 1949...
- Jan Rauchwerger (also an alum)
- Moshe Sternschuss
- Yehezkel StreichmanYehezkel StreichmanYehezkel Streichman was an Israeli painter. He is considered a pioneer of Israeli modernist painting. Among the awards that he won were the Dizengoff Prize and the Israel Prize.-Early life:Streichman was born in Kovno, Lithuania...
(1906-93), painter - Avigdor StematskyAvigdor StematskyAvigdor Stematsky was a Russian-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.-Biography:Stematsky was born in 1908 in Odessa. In 1922, he immigrated to Palestine and attended the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem from 1926 to 1928. He joined the Massad group...
(1908-89), painter - Yigal TumarkinYigal TumarkinYigal Tumarkin is an Israeli painter and sculptor. He is also known as Igael Tumarkin.-Biography:...
Alumni
- Benni EfratBenni EfratBenni Efrat is an Israeli painter, sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker who was born in Beirut. He immigrated to Israel in 1947. From 1959 to 1961, he studied at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv under Yehezkel Streichman .From 1966 to 1976, he lived in London, where he studied at...
- Daniel EnkaouaDaniel Enkaoua-Biography:Enkaoua was born in Meaux in the Île-de-France, where he attended a number of Jewish religious schools. This led him to consider a vocation in religion but, after moving to Israel in 1981, he took up art, studying at the Avni Institute of Art in Tel Aviv, graduating in 1989.In 1991...
- Gideon GechtmanGideon GechtmanGideon Gechtman was an Israeli artist and sculptor. His art is most noted for holding a dialogue with death, often in relation with his own biography.-Biography:...
- Moshe GershuniMoshe Gershuni-Early life:Moshe Gershuni was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv in the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents Yona and Zvi Kutner immigrated there from Poland in the 1920s. He spent his childhood in Tel Aviv and graduated from the local religious high school in 1954. He has two siblings; a brother named...
- Zvi HeckerZvi HeckerZvi Hecker is a Polish-born Israeli architect. His work is known for its emphasis on geometry and asymmetry.-Biography:Zvi Hecker was born on May 31, 1931 in Krakow, Poland. He grew up in Poland and Samarkand. He began his education in architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. He...
- Menashe KadishmanMenashe KadishmanMenashe Kadishman is an Israeli sculptor and painter.-Biography:From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem.In 1959, he moved to London, where...
- Ram KarmiRam KarmiRam Karmi is a leading Israeli architect. He is head of the Tel Aviv-based Ram Karmi Architects company, and is known for his Brutalist style.-Biography:Ram Karmi was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in Tel Aviv...
- Ofer LelloucheOfer LelloucheOfer Lellouche is an Israeli painter, sculptor, etcher and video artist-Biography:Lellouche was born in Tunisia in 1947. He studied mathematics and physics in Paris at Saint Louis College. In 1966, two months before he was scheduled to graduate, he ran away to Kibbutz Yehiam in Israel...
- Isaac Maimon
- Avi SchwartzAvi Schwartz-Childhood and adolescence:Avi Schwartz was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1938. His family was in the diamond business.Early in life he absorbed artistic values at home, where the walls were decorated with pictures from his father's rich art collection. The realityle of portraits and scenery was...
- Siona ShimshiSiona ShimshiSiona Shimshi is an Israeli painter, sculptor, ceramist, and textile designer.-Early life:Shimshi was born in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka and Avraham Shimshi, who had immigrated to Palestine from Lithuania in 1933...
(born 1939), painter, sculptor, ceramist, and textile designer - Itzchak TarkayItzchak TarkayItzchak Tarkay is an Austrian-born Israeli painter and watercolourist.In 1944, Tarkay and his family were sent to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, until Allied liberation freed them a year later. In 1949 his family emigrated to Israel, living in a kibbutz for several years...
- Yona WallachYona Wallach-Writing career:She was proud of her bisexuality and stunned her readers with her daring expressions of sexuality and spirituality combined.Wallach also featured Jungian psychology in her work. Wallach also wrote lyrics for, and performed with, Israeli rock bands. Her book, Island Songs, was...
- Boaz VaadiaBoaz VaadiaBoaz Vaadia is an American/Israeli figurative art sculptor known for working with bluestone slate.-Early life and education:...