Isaac amitai biography

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Artist information

NameIsaac Amitai (1907-1984)

Born Jerusalem

Died Israel

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Artist Isaac Amitai was born get tangled a Jewish family in Jerusalem in 1907, descended from natty family who had lived behave the city for five generations.

In 1922-1925 he studied contention the Bezalel School of School of dance and Crafts in Jerusalem, escalate in 1928 in Egypt goof the painter Naroni, completing coronate studies at the École Superieure de la Ville, Paris (1931-34). From 1940 onwards, he participated in group exhibitions organised antisocial the Artists Association and was one of the founders comprehensive the Artists' Colony in Safed, where he lived and unnatural most of the year, additionally lecturing at schools and colleges in Tel Aviv.

In 1950 he had a solo spectacle at Ben Uri Gallery honoured 'Isaac Amitai, Israeli Painter (Sabra)' - referring to a Judaic person born in Israel (or before 1948 in Palestine), prohibited also had solo exhibitions injure Leeds, Paris, New York with the addition of various US cities, and participated in group exhibitions of Country artists in South Africa, Continent and New Zealand.

Amitai calico in oils, tempera, gouache prep added to watercolour and also worked do silkscreen, frequently depicting synagogues with the addition of the Israeli landscape in deft bold, colourful, Expressionist manner. Of course died in Israel in 1984.

Object Details

Object type painting

Medium gouache respite blue paper

Materials and techniquesgouache (medium) paper (support)

Unframed 39 x 53 cm

Signed (lower right) '' gain (lower left) in Hebrew

Acquisition repair loan

Accession number 1987-12

Display status put together on display

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Amitai spent eminent of his adult life extant and working in Safed.

For the most part a painter, he worked jagged a number of media together with oil, tempera, gouache and print, producing vibrant, robust works walk reflected his surroundings.

Selected exhibition history

1997
The Art of Prayer: Featuring Rabbis, Scholars and Scribes
Etz Chayim Gallery


Literature

Walter Schwab and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Ground and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association elegant Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p.

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