Josl Bergner

สถานที่: Vienna

เกิด: 1920

ความตาย: 2017

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Josl Bergner, also known as Yosl, was an Israeli painter born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. He grew up in Warsaw, Poland and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1937. In 1948, he relocated to Israel where he lived until his death in 2017.

Early Life and Career

was born in Vienna, Austria, and grew up in Warsaw, Poland. With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland. Soon afterwards a pastoral firm in Australia offered the League about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching from the north of Western Australia into the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner's father, Melech Ravitch, became involved in a serious investigation of the Kimberley Plan. In this way the Bergner family moved to Australia. Yosl Bergner emigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery School in Melbourne until the outbreak of World War II. He served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School.

Artistic Style and Influences

In Melbourne from 1937–48, Yosl Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomize modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, John Perceval and Arthur Boyd. Adrian Lawlor moved with his wife to a cottage at Warrandyte, an outer suburb of Melbourne, where they lived for 30 years. Yosl Bergner was a frequent visitor at their Warrandyte home. All the men socialized together. Yosl Bergner encouraged them to go beyond their traditional landscape style and introduced a more radical concern for working families, thus having an important impact on Australian art. Important works by Yosl Bergner include his allegorical paintings, which use kitchen tools such as squashed pots, oil lamps, wrecks and cracked jugs and he anthropomorphizes them. These old instruments symbolize distorted and poor world of wars, secrets and darkness.

Awards and Legacy

In 1956, Yosl Bergner was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for painting. In 1980, he was awarded the Israel Prize for painting (with Anna Ticho and Pinchas Litvinovsky).

• Yosl Bergner's collection at the Israel Museum can be found on Wikioo.org.
• The Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria, has a significant collection of Yosl Bergner's works.
• Yosl Bergner's art can be found on Wikioo.org, along with other notable artists such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

works by Yosl Bergner include his designs for scenery and costumes for the Yiddish and Hebrew theatres, particularly for the plays of Nisim Aloni. He has also illustrated many books. In conclusion, Yosl Bergner was a significant figure in Israeli art, known for his allegorical paintings and his impact on Australian art. His legacy continues to be celebrated through his works, which can be found in various museums and collections around the world.