By Zvi Milshtein
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a large hand signed mixed media paiting on Arches French paper. A chess game encounter. Figurative Abstract Expressionist painting.
Zwy Milshtein (Zvi Tzvi Milstein) BIOGRAPHY 1934 Born in Kishinev (Bessarabia) Russian, Romanian border region. He fled the Nazi Holocaust and in 1948 Arrived in Israel via Cyprus, where he studied with Rafael Ben Zvi. Studies in Tel Aviv with Mordecai Ardon, Aharon Avni, Moshe Mokadi and Marcel Janco founder of the Dada art movement. Studies at The Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem. 1956 Awarded a scholarship by the Israel American Fund.
In 1991, Roland Topor invited him to participate in the last exhibitions of the Panique group and collaborated in the review Le Fou Parle.
Select Group Exhibitions
1950 55 Israeli Artists Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum
1956 Cimaise de Paris,
1958 "School of Paris", Charpentier Gallery,
1959 Les Grands et les Jeunes Aujourd hui Salon National
1960 Les Grands et les Jeunes d Aujourd hui Contemporary Israeli Art, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1961 Russian Artists of the Paris School , Ecole du Paris
1961 Salon de la Jeune Peinture,
1964 Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
1965 Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris
1966 Lauréat for the Gravure du Prix de la Critique
1967 Biennale, Paris
1970 stay with Theodor Ahrenberg, the eminent Swedish art collector. MILSHTEIN has an exhibition at ARC, in the museum of modern art in Paris. Drawings suspended in a liquid contained in a bottle thus creating a three dimensional effect. 1978 An retrospective exhibition of his etchings engravings is held at the Bibliotheque Nationale; the publication of a book illustrated with 33 drawings : Le rite du chat, on exhibit at Artcurial in Paris.
Milshtein has also written several plays and has worked in etching intaglio carborundum, lithograph techniques. listed in adec artprice. He has exhibited at galleries in Germany, France and Switzerland with Theodore Theo Tobiasse, Mane Katz, Raya Sorkine, Avigdor Arikha and Abram Krol. A fine Judaica artist.
Since 2007 Milshtein has had his workshop in the Rhône in Gleizé where he also lives.
Personal exhibitions
1952: Tel Aviv (Israel), Studio Avni
1955: Tel Aviv (Israel), Museum
1957: Paris, Galerie Saint Placide
1958: Paris, La Cave de la Galerie Saint-Placide - Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff
1959: Tel Aviv (Israel), Museum Dizengoff House
1960: Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff
1962: Tel Aviv (Israel), Chemerinsky Art Gallery - Jerusalem (Israel), Musée National Bezalel —New York (United States), Bodley Gallery - Bat Yam (Israel), Bat Yam Museum
1963: Geneva (Switzerland), Museum of Art and History, Cabinet des Estampes
1964: Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff
1965: Paris, Librairie-Galerie Alexandre Loewy
1966: Paris, Galerie Saint-Placide - Brussels (Belgium), Galerie Le Creuset...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Zvi Milshtein Art
MaterialsMixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache