1960 Hand SIGNED Art LITHOGRAPH Jewish YOSL BERGNER Judaica POLISH SHTETL Israel

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Here for sale is an ORIGINAL hand SIGNED ( With pencil ) , LIMITED and NUMBERED 90/120 Jewish - Judaica LARGE STONE LITHOGRAPH by the acclaimed Israeli artist , One of the most important and influential JEWISH ISRAELI PAINTERS of Austrian-Polish descent - YOSL BERGNER who has passed away only 4 years ago . Depicting a TYPICAL eastern European portrait of a STETL - SHTETL BOY - One
of YOSL BERGNER works on that theme - The EASTERN EUROPE PRE WAR STETL .
It is HAND SIGNED in ENGLISH with PENCIL "YOSL BERGNER
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90/120
by BERGNER with pencil .  Sheet size is around 19
x 27 "  . The actual lithograph size is around 15 x 23". Extremely heavy LITHOGRAPH stock  . Very good condition.  Clean. No stains , Tears or creases.  ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images )
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The lithograph will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
AUTHENTICITY
: This is an ORIGINAL vintage hand signed and numbered
90/120
LITHOGRAPH , NOT a reproduction or a reprint  , It holds life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.
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Shipp worldwide via registered airmail is $ 29 .
The lithograph will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
Handling around 5-10 days after payment.
Yosl Bergner (Hebrew: יוסל ברגנר‎‎‎; 13 October 1920 – 18 January 2017) was an Israeli painter. He was born in Vienna, Austria, grew up in Warsaw, Poland, lived in Melbourne, Australia from 1937 until 1948, when he moved to Israel. Contents  [hide]  1 Biography 2 Works 3 Awards 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Biography[edit] Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw, Poland. With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland. Soon afterwards a pastoral firm in Australia offered the League about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching from the north of Western Australia into the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner's father, Melech Ravitch, became involved in a serious investigation of the Kimberley Plan. In this way the Bergner family moved to Australia. Yosl emigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery School in Melbourne until the outbreak of World War II. He served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School. In Melbourne from 1937–48, Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomize modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, John Perceval and Arthur Boyd.[1] Adrian Lawlor moved with his wife to a cottage at Warrandyte, an outer suburb of Melbourne, where they lived for 30 years. Bergner was a frequent visitor at their Warrandyte home. All the men socialized together. Bergner encouraged them to go beyond their traditional landscape style and introduced a more radical concern for working families, thus having an important impact on Australian art. Bergner may not have been prepared for the plight of many struggling Australians. Yet he felt a strong connection between the suffering of people everywhere, whether they were the Jews that he remembered from Europe, landless blacks in the heart of Australia or hungry children in inner urban Melbourne. He left Australia in 1948 and after two years of traveling and exhibiting in Paris, Montreal and New York City, he settled in Israel. He lived in Safed until moving to Tel Aviv in 1957. Works[edit] Bergner designed scenery and costumes for the Yiddish and Hebrew theatres, particularly for the plays of Nissim Aloni, and has illustrated many books. The acme of Bergner's paintings is his allegorical works; he uses kitchen tools such as squashed pots, oil lamps, wrecks and cracked jugs and he anthropomorphizes them. These old instruments symbolize distorted and poor world of wars, secrets and darkness. Awards[edit] In 1956, Bergner was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for painting.[2] In 1980, he was awarded the Israel Prize for painting.[3]  Born in Vienna in 1920,to singer Fania Bergner and poet Melech Ravitch. studied with the painter Hirsch Altman in Warsaw and at the Academy of Art of the Victoria National Gallery,Melbourne. Took part in numerous one-person and collective exhibition, in Museums and galleries, both in Israel and abroad. Represented Israel in several of the Venice and San Paulo Biennales.   Yosl Bergner Exhibitions >> The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has recently held a retrospective exhibition of his works. Bergner has illustrated books and designed sceneries as well as costumes for the theater, in particular for Nisim Alloni's plays. 1954- Herman Struck Prize: 1955- Dizengoff Prize for Painting 1980- Israel Prize for the Art of Painting 1985 - Honorary Life Membership at the Victoria National Gallery,Melbourne:1996- Sheiber Prize for Literature and the Arts,The Shalom Aleichem House, Tel Aviv. 2000– Retrospective exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (curated : Carmela Rubin).2006– Yosl Bergner was awarded the title of honoured citizen of Tel Aviv. 2016- died in his home in Tel Aviv YOSL BERGNER DEAD AT 96 BYGREER FAY CASHMAN  JANUARY 18, 2017 18:22  Yosl joined the army where he served for four and a half years, after which he resumed his art studies.             Theater Masks. (photo credit:INGIMAGE / ASAP) Artist, theater set and costume designer, book illustrator and Israel Prize laureate Yosl Bergner, perhaps best known for his individual and group portraits in which the subjects are featured with long pale faces, pointed chins and huge dark, soulful eyes that mirror both the sadness and the joy of the Jewish experience, died in Tel Aviv on Wednesday at age 96. Much of his work for the theater was for plays by Nissim Aloni. He also designed sets and costumes for Yiddish Theater. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. CLASSICAL REVIEW: ASHDOD ANDALUSIAN ORCHESTRA Nini and More His father, Melech Ravitch, was a famous Yiddish journalist, poet and novelist, and his uncle Hertz Bergner was an internationally renowned Yiddish novelist and playwright who had a close friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer despite the geographic distance between them. During World War I, the Bergner family left their Polish township and settled in Vienna where Melech met Yosl’s mother, a singer from Lodz. Yosl was born in Austria. Antisemitism was rife in Europe, so Yosl’s father went to Australia in 1933, initially to raise funds for Jewish schools in Poland. While he was there, he became interested in the Kimberley Project, which was similar to the Uganda Proposal, namely that it provided a settlement option for Jews where they could be free of persecution. Like the Uganda Proposal, it was buried beneath the dust of history. Melech returned to Warsaw with exotic photographs of Australia which generated great excitement and curiosity in his family and then went back down under. The rest of the Bergner family soon followed. Yosl had already displayed an aptitude for art in Poland and had studied with Hirsch Altman in Warsaw. After arriving in Melbourne, in 1937, he enrolled at the National Gallery Art School where the future icons of the Australian art scene were his fellow students and friends. His studies were disrupted by the outbreak of World War II. Like many young Jewish immigrants from Europe who felt that they owed something to Australia, Yosl joined the army where he served for four-and-a-half years, after which he resumed his art studies. In 1948, he decided to leave Australia and traveled for two years in Europe and North America. In 1950, he came to Israel, settling initially in Safed where he lived for seven years before moving to Tel Aviv. Within four years of settling in Israel, he won the Herman Struck Prize. A year later he was awarded the Dizengoff Prize. Over the years, he won several other prizes and was named an honored citizen of Tel Aviv. His studio was adjacent to his apartment, and he was very disciplined about going there each day to paint, and did so almost to the last day of his life. In 1987, after an absence of half a century, he went back to Australia for a retrospective exhibition which largely featured scenes of the Warsaw and the Melbourne of his youth. Inasmuch as he was a great artist, Bergner was also an engaging raconteur and could keep people spellbound for hours. His funeral will be held Thursday, at 2 p.m., at Kibbutz Einat.born in Vienna and grew up in Warsaw. he immigrated to Australia in 1937, where he studied at the National Gallery Art School until the outbreak of War World One.  Bergner served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School. He left Australia in 1948 and after two years of traveling and exhibiting in Paris, Montreal and New York, he settled in Israel. He lived in Safed until moving to Tel Aviv in 1957. The acme of Bergner's paintings are his allegorical works; paintings of squashed pots, oil lamps, wrecks and cracked jugs- all symbolyze distorted and poor world of wars, secrets and darkness.  Bergner's also known for his unique human portraits- disturbing portraits of triangle headed, elliptic eyed and black staring people, who arouse a feeling of restlessness- even anxiety- as if those eyes look at us from infinite depths.  Bergner has designed scenery and costumes for the Yiddish and Hebrew Theatres, particularly for the plays of Nissim Aloni, and also illustrated many books.  In 1980 Yosl Bergner won the Israel Prize.   ebay3859a