By Eliyahu Sigard
Located in Surfside, FL
From The British mandate Pre State of Israel Palestine Period.
Eliahu Sigad (Eliyahu Sigard), painter, born 1901, Lithuania. Founder of Israeli Painters' Association. Educated in Europe. Prizes in Israel, Exhibitions in Israel and various countries of the world. Died 1975.
Education
Riga, architecture and drawing
Colarossi Academy, Paris, France
1930 Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France
Awards And Prizes
1938 Dizengoff Prize
1945-46, Dizengoff Prize
1945 Ramat Gan Prize
1946 Ramat Gan Prize
1956 Exhibition of the Landscape of Tiberias, First prize
1958 Tenth National Israeli Exhibition, Ramat Gan.
In the late 1920s artists from Ereẓ Israel began flocking to Paris; this was accompanied by a tendency to abandon the former modernistic manifestations and folk-loristic character and by an intensified desire to root art in an established artistic tradition, all the more so since France in those years was marked by the trend of reverting to traditional artistic values. Paris offered the Ereẓ Israel artists a wide range of choices. There was the French landscape tradition of the 19th century (Corot, Courbet) and various impressionist and post-impressionist trends (Cézanne, the "intimist" artists). The Jewish School of Paris...
Category
1940s Fauvist Eliyahu Sigard Paintings