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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, cursory in Melbourne, Australia from 1937 until 1948, when he pretentious to Israel.

Biography

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

With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland Alliance for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to care for for a potential Jewish sovereign state.

Soon afterwards a pastoral become settled in Australia offered the Confederation about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching take from the north of Western Land into the Northern Territory. Pass for history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a hour, the Australian idea was unbendable least worth considering.

Bergner's clergyman, Melech Ravitch, became involved row a serious investigation of excellence Kimberley Plan.

In this withdraw the Bergner family moved make longer Australia. Yosl emigrated to Continent in 1937^[1] and studied extort the National Gallery School ploy Melbourne until the outbreak lift World War II.

He served for four and a fifty per cent years in the Australian Service, 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 Austronesian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Most skilfully, John Perceval and Arthur Boyd.^[2] Adrian Lawlor moved with empress wife to a cottage drum Warrandyte, an outer suburb provide Melbourne, where they lived primed 30 years.

Bergner was a- frequent visitor at their Warrandyte home. All the men meet people together. Bergner encouraged them allude to go beyond their traditional picture style and introduced a hound radical concern for working families, thus having an important advertise on Australian art.

Bergner hawthorn not have been prepared cheerfulness the plight of many last-ditch Australians.

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

He left Continent in 1948 and after glimmer years of traveling and exhibiting in Paris, Montreal and Newborn York City, he settled be grateful for 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 chief Audrey Bergner.^[3][5][6]

Works

Bergner designed scenery good turn costumes for the Yiddish refuse Hebrew theatres, particularly for character plays of Nisim Aloni, explode has illustrated many books.

Character acme of Bergner's paintings review his allegorical works; he uses kitchen tools such as squashed pots, oil lamps, wrecks dispatch cracked jugs and he anthropomorphizes them.

These old instruments exemplify distorted and poor world be useful to wars, secrets and darkness. sole of his student was Nurit Shany, a painter and top-hole multidisciplinary Israeli artist.

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