Bergner Yosi

Current Bid: $80,000 Estimate value: $75,000 Listing #: 54 Open Date: From the first bid Bid Increment: 10 % Shipping time: expres

Klizmer in Safad

Oil on canvas signed RARE

116/90 cm

INcluding frame

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Vienna, Bergner spent his youth in Warsaw and Polish hamlets getting to know his Hasidic family. At 17, he and his family left for Australia, and it was at the Melbourne Academy of Art that he began his art studies. After World War II he spent some time in the U.S., Canada and Paris, and came to Israel in 1950 with his painter-wife Audrey. He settled and worked in Safed till 1958 when he was discovered by Gallery owner Binet of Jerusalem. Bergner’s special feature is the use of old domestic utensils as humanized symbols and metaphors with an inner dynamism reaching back to the past. Bergner painted a series based on the novels of Kafka, and more recently one inspired by the fourteenth century Bird's Head Passover Haggada. He has had one-man shows in all Israeli museums and in a number of galleries, like the Binet, Rosenfeld and Park galleries.