Israel Zohar
Israel Zohar (born Feb 7, 1945, Aktyubinsk) is an Kazakh-born Israeli painter, playwright and theatre director. He moved to Israel with his parents when he was four. He displayed artistic talent when he was young and received his first drawing lessons at age 14. After three years in the army (1963-1966) he entered the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Ernst Fuchs was one of Zohar's teachers and Fuchs' work greatly influenced Zohar's work. He visited Britain and the Netherlands, where he saw Dutch Golden Age paintings and especially Vermeer's work, which also influenced Zohar's work. Zohar's first one man show was at the Ahuva Doran Gallery, Tel Aviv in 1970. In 1979, after exhibiting many artworks in solo and group shows, he lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At this time, his paintings were heavily influenced by Vermeer, in both style and subject matter. By the 1980s his work became more expressionistic and larger in scale. His retrospective at the Musée de l’Athénée in Geneva brought him renown as well as his series ‘Reflections’: Homage to Vermeer at the Museum Panorama Mesdag in the Hague. Zohar's major commissions include a portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales and of Henry Catto and many collaborations with Rivka Golani.[1]
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- ↑ Ruigrok, Robbert (2003), "Zohar, Israel", Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t093589, retrieved 2021-04-14
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