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• Abed Abdi
  Abed Abdi
  Abed Abdi is an Arab Israeli painter, graphic designer, sculpturer and lecturer of the arts.Abdi worked as a blacksmith and illustrated Arabic publications that appeared in Israel. After studying in Dresden, Abdi became the first Palestinian to build monumental art on native soil...
  
  
• Larry Abramson
  Larry Abramson
  - Biography :Abramson was born in 1954 in South Africa. In 1961, his family emigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. In 1970, as a high school senior, he was one of the signators of a conscientious objectors to Israeli rejection of Egyptian President Nasser’s peace initiative. In 1973 Abramson...
  
  
• Matanya Abramson
  Matanya Abramson
  Matanya Abramson was an Israeli sculptor whose sculptures have been exhibited worldwide as well as in Israel. Matanya is a versatile artist who worked in marble, stone, and wood, as well as with bronze, aluminum and copper castings.-Biography:...
  
  
• Leonid Afremov
  Leonid Afremov
  Leonid Afremov is a Jewish Belarusian painter. His paintings are often vividly-coloured landscapes, cityscapes and figures, and are typically painted using a palette knife and oil paint. His work has been greatly influenced by contemporary cityscape painter and modern impressionist Michael...
  
  
• Yaacov Agam
  Yaacov Agam
  Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.-Biography:Yaakov Agam was born Yaakov Gipstein on May 11, 1928, in Rishon LeZion, then Mandate Palestine...
  
  
• Mel Alexenberg
  Mel Alexenberg
  Mel Alexenberg is an artist and art educator best known for his explorations of the intersections between art, science, technology and culture through his artworks, teaching, writing and blogging....
  
  
• Oz Almog
  Oz Almog
  Oz Almog, an Israeli–Austrian artist was born on April 15, 1956, in Kfar Saba, Israel. He comes from a family of Russian/Ukrainian pioneers and Romanian/Russian immigrants...
  
  
• Nir Alon
  Nir Alon
  Nir Alon is an Israeli sculptor and an installation artist. Alon studied from 1988 until 1992 at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. In 1996 he received the prize for young artists of the Israeli Ministry for education and Culture. In 1998 he participated in an exchange exhibition...
  
  
• Mordecai Ardon
  Mordecai Ardon
  Mordecai Ardon , considered one of Israel's greatest painters.-Biography:Ardon was born in 1896 in Tuchów, Galicia , and immigrated to the then Mandate Palestine in 1933....
  
  
• Avigdor Arikha
  Avigdor Arikha
  Avigdor Arikha was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and art historian.-Biography:Avigdor Arikha was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, but grew up in Czernowitz , in Bukovina, Romania., His family faced forced deportation in 1941 to the Romanian-run concentration camps of...
  
  
• Amnon David Ar
  Amnon David Ar
  Amnon David Ar born in 1973 in Herzliyah, Israel, is a painter. He studied at the Arts and Crafts Municipal High School of Tel Aviv until the age of eighteen. After completing his compulsory military service, he studied anatomy with Oswald Adler...
  
  
• David Ascalon
  David Ascalon
  David Ascalon is a contemporary sculptor and stained glass artist, and co-founder of Ascalon Studios.-Biography:Ascalon was born in Tel Aviv, in the British Mandate of Palestine on March 8, 1945...
  
  
• Maurice Ascalon
  Maurice Ascalon
  Maurice Ascalon , a designer and sculptor, is, by some accounts, considered the father of the modern Israeli decorative arts movement.- Biography :Maurice Ascalon was born as Moshe Klein in eastern Hungary...
  
  
• Isidor Ascheim
  Isidor Ascheim
  Isidor Ascheim was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker-Biography:Ascheim was born in Posen , Prussia in 1891. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family and served during World War I...
  
  
• Mordechai Avniel
  Mordechai Avniel
  Mordechai Avniel , variant name Mordecai Avniel, was an Israeli painter and sculptor.- Biography :Avniel was born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus. He studied fine arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem...
  
  

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• Samuel Bak
  Samuel Bak
  -Childhood:Born on August 12, 1933 in Vilna, which is now Vilnius, Lithuania, Bak was recognized from an early age as possessing extraordinary artistic talent. He describes his family as "secular, but proud of their Jewish identity." Immediately following the German invasion of Poland in September...
  
  
• Tuvia Beeri
  Tuvia Beeri
  Tuvia 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...
  
  
• Edward Ben Avram
  Ben Avram
  Edward Ben Avram is an artist who was born in Bombay, India and immigrated to Israel as a teenager. He graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1965 and continues to make his home in Jerusalem....
  
  
• Avner Ben-Gal
  Avner Ben-Gal
  Avner Ben-Gal is an international painter and artist, working mainly from Tel Aviv, Israel. His works depict various intense, often neglected locations such as agricultural fields, prisons and smoky interiors, whereby theatrical scenes play out. The scenes present ghostly, rough hewn and often low...
  
  
• Yosl Bergner
  Yosl Bergner
  Yosl Bergner is an Israeli painter.-Biography:Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw.With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation was formed in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland...
  
  
• Helen Berman
  Helen Berman
  Helen Berman is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands...
  
  
• Naftali Bezem
  Naftali Bezem
  Naftali Bezem is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.-Biography:Bezem who was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent under Nazi oppression, in constant fear for the safety of his parents, who perished in Auschwitz concentration camp...
  
  

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• Rhea Carmi
  Rhea Carmi
  Rhea Carmi , is an Israeli-American abstract expressionist and mixed-media artist.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Pinchas Cohen-Gan
  Pinchas Cohen Gan
  Pinchas 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...
  
  
• Maya Cohen-Levy
  Maya Cohen Levy
  Maya Cohen Levy , also known as Maya Cohen-Levy, is an Israeli painter and sculptor.-Life and work:Maya Cohen Levy was born in Tel Aviv. She studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University from 1973 to 1974. From 1975 to 1979, she pursued advanced studies at the High School for Art in Tel Aviv...
  
  
• Keren Cytter
  Keren Cytter
  -Biography:Cytter spent her childhood in Israel, where she went on to study visual art in AvniInstitute for Art, Tel Aviv. After her success in various galleries in her home country, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers....
  
  

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• Pinchas Cohen Gan
  Pinchas Cohen Gan
  Pinchas 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...
  
  
• Gideon Gechtman
  Gideon Gechtman
  Gideon 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:...
  
  
• Mordechai Geldman
  Mordechai Geldman
  -Biography:Geldman was born at a displaced persons camp in Munich to Polish parents who had survived the Holocaust. His family immigrated to Israel in 1949 and settled in Tel Aviv, where he has lived ever since. He completed a bachelor's in literature and an master's in clinical psychology at Bar...
  
  
• David Gerstein
  David Gerstein (artist)
  David Gerstein b. Jerusalem, 1944 is an Israeli artist who works on the border line between painting and sculpture. He began as a figurative painter and illustrator of children books and was recipient of the Israel Museum Prize for illustration, among others...
  
  
• Michail Grobman
  Michail Grobman
  Michail Grobman is a painter and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli Architect Yasha Jacob Grobman.-Notable Footnotes:* 1939 - Born in Moscow....
  
  
• Dor Guez
  Dor Guez
  Dor Guez is a Jerusalem-born photography and video artist, lives and works in Jaffa. He is a lecturer in the history and theory department at Bezalel academy of art and design, Jerusalem....
  
  
• Nachum Gutman

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• Menashe Kadishman
  Menashe Kadishman
  Menashe 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...
  
  
• Leo Kahn
  Leo Kahn
  Leo Kahn was a German-Israeli painter,-Biography:Kahn was born in 1894 in Bruchsal, Germany. He served in the German army in 1914, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe between 1919-1920 under the tutelage of Albert Hueinsen. Kahn travelled to Berlin , Holland, and France in search...
  
  
• Dani Karavan
  Dani Karavan
  Dani Karavan is an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment, though he has made important installations as well as other significant contributions to art and architecture.- Biography :Dani Karavan's father Abraham was the chief...
  
  
• Shemuel Katz
• Joseph Kossonogi
  Joseph Kossonogi
  Joseph Kossonogi was an Israeli painter.-Biography:Kossonogi was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1908. After studies at the Berlin Academy of Art and advanced studies in France, Holland, Italy and Spain, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv in 1926...
  
  
• Elyasaf Kowner
  Elyasaf Kowner
  Elyasaf Kowner is an interdisciplinary artist who explores issues of abuse, loss, control and love for people. He has made over 30 poetic short films that were screened in festivals and museums internationally...
  
  
• Heddy Kun
  Heddy Kun
  Heddy Kun is an Israeli painter.Kun was born in Zagreb in 1936.She lost her parents during the Holocaust. She escaped fron the Nazis and hid in Budapest with her grandmother and her brother...
  
  

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• Jeremy Langford
  Jeremy Langford
  Jeremy Langford , British/Israeli glass designer and sculptor known for his monumental stacked glass sculptures. His family's original name was Lelyveld, natives of the Netherlands, and Langford is related to Joseph Lelyveld, an editor of The New York Times, and to civil rights activist Rabbi...
  
  
• Bracha Lavee
  Bracha Lavee
  Bracha Brym-Lavee is a Jerusalem-based artist.Born Bracha Brym in Poland, she moved to Israel in 1957, where she grew up and studied in Tiberias. She won her first art prize at age seven in Poland, and throughout her schooling in Tiberias was known as the class artist...
  
  
• Raffi Lavie
  Raffi Lavie
  Raffi Lavie was an Israeli artist, art educator and music/art critic.-Biography:Lavi was born in Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine. He began teaching at the Midrasha Art Academy in 1966. In the same year he was also a founder of the group Ten Plus. Lavie's work is a cross between graffiti and abstract...
  
  
• Maya Cohen Levy
  Maya Cohen Levy
  Maya Cohen Levy , also known as Maya Cohen-Levy, is an Israeli painter and sculptor.-Life and work:Maya Cohen Levy was born in Tel Aviv. She studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University from 1973 to 1974. From 1975 to 1979, she pursued advanced studies at the High School for Art in Tel Aviv...
  
  
• Pamela Levy
  Pamela Levy
  Pamela Levy was an Israeli artist.Pamela Levy was born in Fairfield, Iowa. She completed a B.A. at the University of Northern Iowa .In 1976 she immigrated to Israel where she started exhibiting her work in solo shows soon after...
  
  

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• Emmanuel Mané-Katz
  Mane-Katz
  Emmanuel Mané-Katz, born Mane Leyzerovich Kats , was a Jewish painter born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe.- Biography :...
  
  
• Grégoire Michonze
  Grégoire Michonze
  Grégoire Michonze was a Russian-French painter, born in 1902 in Kishinev , Russia Grégoire Michonze (1902–1982) (variant name Grégoire Michonznic, Grogórij Mišónznik) was a Russian-French painter, born in 1902 in Kishinev (Bessarabia), Russia Grégoire Michonze (1902–1982) (variant name Grégoire...
  
  
• Nachume Miller
  Nachume Miller
  Nachume Miller was an Israeli artist who immigrated to New York City in 1973, where he made a name for himself in the American Modern Art scene. Miller's parents were both Holocaust survivors. His father was a captain in the front lines of the Russian Army during World War II and his mother was a...
  
  
• Motti Mizrachi
  Motti Mizrachi
  Motti Mizrachi is an Israeli multimedia artist who was born in Tel Aviv. From 1969 to 1973, he studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem...
  
  
• Amadeo Modigliani

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• Ze'ev Raban
  Ze'ev Raban
  Ze’ev Raban was a leading painter, decorative artist, and industrial designer of the Bezalel school style, and was one of the founders of the Israeli art world.-Life:...
  
  
• Ilana Raviv
  Ilana Raviv
  - Overview :Ilana Raviv was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, Palestine and studied art at the Art Students League of New York. Among her teachers were: Roberto Delamonica, Bruce Dorfman and Knox Martin. Her work encompasses different media, including paintings, drawings, etchings, tapestries and ceramics...
  
  
• Nissan Rilov
  Nissan Rilov
  Nissan Rilov was an Israeli painter and one of the first and few children to live in Nahalal , the first Zionist moshav in Palestine.Rilov served in the Special Night Squads , the Haganah, and the British Army during World War II...
  
  
• Leo Roth
  Leo Roth
  Leo Roth , also known as Lior Roth, was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Austria-Hungary. In 1920, Roth moved to Germany and, in 1933, immigrated to Palestine. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completed frescoes in Italy and France in the 1950s...
  
  
• Reuven Rubin
  Reuven Rubin
  Reuven Rubin was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.-Biography:Rubin Zelicovici was born in Galaţi to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art...
  
  
• Zahara Rubin
  Zahara Rubin
  Zahara Rubin is an Israeli sculptor, painter and artist. During her career, she has received several Israeli art awards.-Early life and education :...
  
  

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• Moshe Safdie
  Moshe Safdie
  Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA is an architect, urban designer, educator, theorist, and author. Born in the city of Haifa, then Palestine and now Israel, he moved with his family to Montreal, Canada, when he was 15 years old.-Career:...
  
  
• Zahara Schatz
  Zahara Schatz
  Zahara Schatz , was an Israeli fine and decorative artist and daughter of Boris Schatz, who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, as it is known today, in Jerusalem.-Biography:...
  
  
• Buky Schwartz
  Buky Schwartz
  -Biography:Schwartz was born in Jerusalem in 1932. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture with Yitzhak Danziger at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. In 1959, he moved to London, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art from 1959 to 1962. After returning to Israel in...
  
  
• Shlomo Selinger
  Shlomo Selinger
  Shelomo Selinger is an Israeli sculptor who was born in Jaworzno in Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1945. From 1955 to 1958, he studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.His sculptures in public places include:...
  
  
• Shaul Shats
  Shaul Shats
  Shaul Shats is an Israeli painter, printmaker and illustrator, born in 1944 in Kibbutz Sarid, Israel. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem , the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam , and the Freie Akademie, The Hague . Shats taught at the Bezalel Academy from 1978-82...
  
  
• Ahuva Sherman
  Ahuva Sherman
  Ahuva Sherman is an Israeli artist who works in oil, pastel, and wall tapestries.- Biography :She was born in Tel-Aviv, Palestine, and now lives and works in Haifa, Israel, with her studio atop Mount Carmel. Ahuva's studies were with Menachem Shemi and Prof. P. K. Hoenich at the Hammersmith School...
  
  
• Siona Shimshi
  Siona Shimshi
  Siona 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...
  
  
• Jacob Steinhardt
  Jacob Steinhardt
  Jacob Steinhardt was an Israeli painter and woodcut artist.-Biography:Jacob Steinhardt was born in Żerków, Germany . He attended the School of Art in Berlin in 1906, then studied painting with Louis Corinth and engraving with Hermann Struck in 1907...
  
  
• Zamy Steynovitz
  Zamy Steynovitz
  Zamy Steynovitz was an Israeli born impressionist painter.-Biography:Steynovitz was born in Legnica, Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1957. He aspired to become a painter from childhood, and had prior to leaving Poland begun his artistic activity. He immigrated to Israel in 1957...
  
  
• Maayan Strauss
  Maayan Strauss
  Maayan Strauss is an Israeli artist.Strauss studied architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She has exhibited in several galleries and art projects, such as the project "Sharon", that suggests, according to curator Joshua Simon, "an unlikely connection between the most...
  
  
• Yehezkel Streichman
  Yehezkel Streichman
  Yehezkel 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...
  
  
• Sucho
  Sucho
  Gedalia Suchowolski is an Israeli painter and sculptor known by his nickname Sucho.-Biography:Gedalia Suchowolski was born in Białystok, Poland...
  
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• Tal R
  Tal R
  Tal R is an artist based in Copenhagen.Tal R studied at Billedskolen, Copenhagen, 1986–1988 and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1994–2000....
  
  
• Ruben Talberg
  Ruben Talberg
  Ruben Talberg is a German - Israeli painter, sculptor, and photographer.He initially lived in Tel-Aviv and New York, then in Frankfurt and Offenbach. In 1986 his first solo-exhibition was presented in Heidelberg....
  
  
• Itzchak Tarkay
  Itzchak Tarkay
  Itzchak 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...
  
  
• David Tartakover
  David Tartakover
  David Tartakover is an Israeli graphic designer, political activist, artist and design educator.He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and is a graduate of the London College of Printing...
  
  
• Paul Harrison Taylor
  Paul Harrison Taylor
  Paul Harrison Taylor is a sculptor of English and Israeli nationalities.He worked as a recording engineer and producer at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London, before finishing his studies at the City and Guilds of London art school in 1984...
  
  
• Anna Ticho
  Anna Ticho
  Anna Ticho was a Jewish artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills.- Biography :Anna Ticho was born in Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1894...
  
  
• Igael (or Yigal) Tumarkin
  Yigal Tumarkin
  Yigal Tumarkin is an Israeli painter and sculptor. He is also known as Igael Tumarkin.-Biography:...
  
  

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• Yuval Yairi
  Yuval Yairi
  Yuval Yairi is an Israeli artist, using photography and video.Exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum,Andrea Meislin Gallery NYC, Alon Segev Gallery Tel Aviv,...
  
  
• Abraham Yakin
  Abraham Yakin
  Abraham Yakin was born in 1924 in Jerusalem. During the Second World War he joined the British Navy and served three years in the Mediterranean fleet, thus having a chance to become acquainted with the art treasures in Egypt, Greece, France and Italy. After the war he returned to Jerusalem and...
  
  
• Hannah Yakin
  Hannah Yakin
  Hannah Yakin is an Israeli artist. She was born in Amsterdam in 1933 as Hannah van Hulst.During World War II, Hannah developed her artistic talents, experiencing "happy times in which necessity bore creativity"....
  
  
• Yitzhak Yamin
  Yitzhak Yamin
  Yitzhak Yamin is an Israeli painter and sculptor.Yitzhak Yamin was born in Iraq, and in 1951 emigrated to Israel...
  
  
• Yoop de Yons
  Merom Golan
  Merom Golan is an Israeli settlement and a kibbutz in the northern Golan Heights which lies in the municipal territory of the Golan Regional Council...
  
  
• Josephinne Yaroshevich
  Josephinne Yaroshevich
  Josephine Yaroshevich is a painter and pioneer in the field of Computer Art.- Biography :Josephine Yaroshevich was born in Kharkov, USSR to a Jewish family, and grown up in Odessa, USSR...