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lithograph signed,

size: 49x67 cm

 

Shraga Weill (1918 - February 20, 2009) was an Israeli artist.

Weill, one of the most important artists in the kibbutz, worked in various fields of art, including drawing, drawing, printing, etching, litholing, lithography, screen printing, and more.

Shraga Weil was born in 1918 in Nitra, Czechoslovakia. In his youth, he joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement. In 1937 he began to study art in Prague. During World War II he was in Budapest and forged documents for the Hungarian underground. At the end of the war, he worked as an illustrator in a publishing house in Budapest and in a drawing of publications by Hehalutz and Ha - Shomer ha - Tsa'ir youth movements. In 1947 he immigrated to Palestine and was deported to a detention camp in Cyprus. Where he worked on painting camp life and educating youth through creative workshops. At the end of 1947, Weil came to Israel and joined Kibbutz Haogen.

Shraga Weil, "HALACHA" (Traditional low)

מק"ט: 0112
140.00$מחיר
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