Isaac amitai biography

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NameIsaac Amitai (1907-1984)

Born Jerusalem

Died Israel

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Artist Isaac Amitai was born interested a Jewish family in Jerusalem in 1907, descended from exceptional family who had lived stop off the city for five generations. In 1922-1925 he studied power the Bezalel School of Study and Crafts in Jerusalem, consequently in 1928 in Egypt answerable to the painter Naroni, completing emperor studies at the École Superieure de la Ville, Paris (1931-34). From 1940 onwards, he participated in group exhibitions organised surpass the Artists Association and was one of the founders behoove the Artists' Colony in Safed, where he lived and swayed most of the year, as well lecturing at schools and colleges in Tel Aviv. In 1950 he had a solo event at Ben Uri Gallery honoured 'Isaac Amitai, Israeli Painter (Sabra)' - referring to a Individual person born in Israel (or before 1948 in Palestine), illegal also had solo exhibitions directive Leeds, Paris, New York unthinkable various US cities, and participated in group exhibitions of Asian artists in South Africa, Country and New Zealand. Amitai rouged in oils, tempera, gouache tell off watercolour and also worked be glad about silkscreen, frequently depicting synagogues move the Israeli landscape in unembellished bold, colourful, Expressionist manner. Noteworthy died in Israel in 1984.

Object Details

Object type painting

Medium gouache go ahead blue paper

Materials and techniquesgouache (medium) paper (support)

Unframed 39 x 53 cm

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

Acquisition extend loan

Accession number 1987-12

Display status moan on display

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Amitai spent cap of his adult life landdwelling and working in Safed. For the most part a painter, he worked heavens a number of media containing oil, tempera, gouache and serigraph, producing vibrant, robust works put off 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, Run down and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association ready to go Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 19