Shraga Because

Door to the Knesset

Ceramics at the Tel Aviv Synagogue (1970)

Shraga Weil (born as František Weil September 24, 1918 in Nitra , Austria-Hungary ; died February 20, 2009 in Kibbutz HaOgen , Sharon Plain ) was a Slovak-Israeli painter and graphic artist.

Life

In his youth, František Weil became a member of the scout organization Hashomer Hatzair and the sports organization Makabi . His extended family was partly based in Vienna. He studied sculpture at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts from 1937 to 1939 . In March 1939 Czechoslovakia was broken up by the Germans and a Slovak vassal state was established.

Weil found a job in Bratislava . Before the increasing persecution of Jews in Slovakia , he fled in 1942 to Budapest, which still seemed safe . In the summer of 1944 he escaped persecution of the Jews in Hungary, returned to Slovakia and took part in the Slovak uprising .

In 1947 he reached Palestine illegally , where the State of Israel was founded in 1948 . Weil became a member of Kibbutz HaOgen . He supplemented his artistic training by studying at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in 1953 and in Ravenna .

Weil worked as a painter, graphic artist, book designer and sculptor. He participated in exhibitions around the world and received public contracts. His monumental works have been installed in the Knesseth building and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC , among others . Works by him are in many public collections. In 1959 Weil was one of the recipients of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.

literature

• Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 266f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
• Gideon Ofrat: Shraga Weil - 60 years of printmaking . Safrai Fine Art Gallery Jerusalem, 2000

Web links

• Literature by and about Shraga Weil in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Shraga Weil in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Shraga Weil , at the Knesset
• Shraga Weil , website