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“Let My People Go” poster
Dan Reisinger
1969
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Dan Reisinger was one of Israel’s most prominent graphic artists and designers. Reisinger was born into an artistic family in Kanjiža, Yugoslavia. During World War II, he was hidden by a Serbian family; he lost most of his family to the Holocaust. After the war, Reisinger immigrated with his mother and stepfather to Israel, where he began working as a house painter. He soon enrolled at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts to study painting, sculpture, and poster design and later at the Central School of Art and Design in London. With a career working abroad, Reisinger also opened his own design studio in Tel Aviv in 1967 and quickly began designing in a variety of media for advertising and print. He taught at the Bezalel School and the University of Haifa. In 1998, he was awarded the Israel Prize, the first graphic designer to receive the prestigious award.
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