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Ben Zion Magal
Israeli Judaica Watercolor Gouache Bar Mitzvah Boy Rabbi Painting Russian Artist

1962

$1,100
£841.01
€968.67
CA$1,541.44
A$1,720.87
CHF 901.71
MX$21,065.13
NOK 11,451.72
SEK 10,797.52
DKK 7,229.30

About the Item

Ben Zion Magal (1908 - 1999) Ben Zion Magal was born in 1908 in Kishinev - Russia and there, years later, graduated from the Art Academy. He arrived to Erertz Israel together with his wife Chaya, an artist in her own right, in 1933 and settled in Haifa. He brought with him artistic talent, experience and memories from his father's home and of the warm charm of the "Jewish shtetl". In order to survive, as an artist, in mandatory Palestine, one had to be a tough person. Magal, as many others had to create in a cultural desert and material poverty, without support of museums, galleries or any institutional backing. They started literally from scratch. Together with other Haifa artists, he founded the Haifa Association of Artists. Later he was one of the first members of the Israel Association of Painters and Sculptors and was among the founders of the artistic village Ein - Hod, near Haifa. Magal's style is mainly impressionistic. The Israeli landscape is the main topic in his paintings. The composition of the beautiful Israeli landscape, the desert and the oriental aspects are strongly expressed in the sunlight of the land. In this he follows the main trend of Israeli painters who saw, from the beginning, the landscape as one of the most important subjects. Magal's other topic, deals with Jewish life and tradition in the East European "shtetl". He brings on the canvas his childhood memories of the "school", the Carter, tailor and poultry vendor. These paintings bind him to the Jewish painters who bequeathed to the following generations, an artistic expression of the Jewish tradition and way of life that was so violently terminated and does not exist any more. Positivenegative Ein Hod Center Gallery, Ein Hod Artists: Avraham Eilat, Zvi Aldouby, Ovadian Alkara, Gedalya Ben Zvi, Dan Zaretsky, Mark Tochilkin, Benzion Magal, Moshe Mokady, Shmuel Ra'Ayoni, Ahuva Sherman.
  • Creator:
    Ben Zion Magal (1908 - 1999, Israeli, Russian)
  • Creation Year:
    1962
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    mat has wear, needs new mat size includes mat.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38213290032

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