Yosl Bergner
Yosl Bergner (born October 13, 1920 in Vienna ; died January 18, 2017 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli painter .
Life
From 1921 Bergner lived with his parents, the Yiddish-speaking writer Melech Ravitsch and the singer Fania Hardstein, in Warsaw , where he received his first painting lessons from Hirsch Altmann. In 1937 the family emigrated to Australia because of increasing anti-Semitism .
He studied painting at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne and had his first exhibitions. In 1938 Bergner co-founded the group for contemporary art in Melbourne and, with Noel Counihan and Victor O'Connor, became a representative of “social realism”. From 1941 to 1946 Yosl Bergner was called up for labor service in the Australian Army , after which he completed his studies. In 1948 he made a trip to Paris , to his father in Montreal and in 1950 he went to Israel, where he first lived in Safed and from 1957 in Tel Aviv. He still exhibited occasionally in Australia.
Bergner worked as a freelance artist and as a stage painter and also created numerous book illustrations. His style of painting is influenced by surrealism . In 1956, 1958 and 1962 he was represented at the Israeli stand of the Biennale di Venezia , and in 1957 he was invited to the São Paulo Biennale .
Bergner received a shared Dizengoff Prize in 1952 and the Israel Prize in 1980 .
Works, exhibitions (selection)
- Drawings to Franz Kafka . Jerusalem: Tarshish Books, 1959
- Carmela Rubin: Yosl Bergner: a retrospective . Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2000
Plastic in Hadar HaCarmel , Haifa
literature
- Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 94 f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 105 (# 808).
- Chaim Frank; R. Smith: Bergner, Jossel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 419.
- Bergner, Yosl. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 4, Col. 618
Web links
- Literature by and about Yosl Bergner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Yosl Bergner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ravitch, Melech , at YIVO ; Ravitch, Melech. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 13, Sp. 1585f.
- ^ "Social realism", as much as New Objectivity in Germany
- ^ Haim Gamzu: Israele: la biennale di Venezia 16 Giugno - 7 October 1962: XXXI esposizione biennale Internazionale d'arte. Haim Gamzu, Avigdor Arikha, Yosl Bergner, Zvi Mairovich, Zvi Gali . 1962
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergner, Yosl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bergner, Jossel; Bergner, Vladimir Jossif |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th January 2017 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |