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Father and Sons
Yosl Bergner
1941
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Viennese-born painter, illustrator, and set designer Yosl Bergner grew up in Warsaw, the son of Yiddish writer Melekh Ravitch. He emigrated to Australia in 1937, where he studied painting at the Art School of the National Gallery of Victoria and became influential in the Australian art scene. In the early 1950s, after serving in the Australian Army, Bergner and his wife settled in Israel. He won the Dizengoff Prize for painting and sculpture in 1956 and, in 1980, the Israel Prize for painting. In 1985, Bergner paid a return visit to Australia, where a major retrospective exhibition of his paintings was held at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Although Bergner did not personally experience the Holocaust, it was a recurring theme in his art. Here, in a painting in the style of a child’s drawing, a child wearing a hat, typical of others seen…
The Great Synagogue of Lutsk (Łuck) in Ukraine was built in 1626. Renaissance in style, the synagogue is an example of a fortress synagogue, built not only as a house of worship but also with the…
The blue and white abstract shapes in The Mud Bath evoke human figures in motion against a field of red. Are they meant to be people at a public bathhouse? Or are they interpreted that way because the…