Middle Eastern Men Oil Painting Austrian Israeli Modernist Tel Aviv Museum

Dimensions: H: 24.0, W: 20.5, D: 2.5 IN

ARIEH ALLWEIL [ARIE ALWEIL] 1901-1967 Galicia 1901-1967 Safed, Israel (Ukrainian/Polish/Israeli) Pastel or Gouache on paper Hand signed lower right Dimensions: framed 20.5 X 23.5. image 15 X 18

This depicts Oriental Middle Eastern men in traditional garb

I have heard them described as Sephardic Rabbis or Kabbalists Jerusalem They might also be Bedouins or Arabs.

Arieh Allweil, born 1901, Galicia. Immigrated to Palestine in 1920. Studies: 1921-25 Art Academy, Vienna; Dresden Academy. Alweil brought with him the high values of the Central European avant-garde, which he had absorbed during his years of study in Vienna. He joined the ‘Kunstschau’ group- of artists that had formed around Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

He exhibited with them in the 1920’s, and emigrated to Palestine in 1926.

He was one of the founders of the Tel Aviv

Art Museum and the Midrasha Art Teachers College in Israel. As opposed to other modern Israeli artists in his period, Allweil's woodcuts and illustrations pertained to contemporary events such as the Holocaust and the pioneering spirit before the establishment of the State of Israel. Most notable is this work as well as the first illustrated Passover Haggada for the IDF which he made in 1950 and which was printed for 3 years with his inspirational woodcut illustrations. He published a series of linoleum cuts of Israeli and Biblical subjects

and created large scale murals of the Holocaust.

Teaching: In Israel, art. Prizes: Received Dizengoff Prize twice; 1955 Turov Prize for Bible Illustrations. Published series of linoleum cuts of Israeli and Biblical subjects, also illustrated a Passover Haggada and large scale murals of Holocaust. From 1952 until his death lived in Tel Aviv and in Safed in summer. Died 1967, Safed.

Education 1921-25 Art Academy, Vienna, Austria 1921-25 Dresden Academy, Germany

Teaching Herzliya Gymnasium High-School, Israel, art. Tel Aviv High School

Awards And Prizes 1937 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture,

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1946 Dizengoff Prize 1955 Turov Prize for Bible Illustrations

Select Solo Exhibition: 1933 Tel Aviv Museum, British Mandate Palestine Solo Exhibition 1942 Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv 1950 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv 1956 The Blue Dome, Safed 1968 Memorial Exhibition of the artist Arieh Allweil Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva 1969 Solo Exhibition The Knesset, Jerusalem 1987 Arieh Allweil: 1901-1967 - ''Return to Betanya Ilit'' Beit Gabriel, Zemah 1994 Arieh Allweil: Prints and Calligraphy The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum,Jerusalem 2011 Arieh Allweil, Letters, Figures, Landscapes

Mishkan Le'omanut, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod

Select Group Exhibitions 1929 Eged - Palestine Painters Group Allenby Street, Tel Aviv Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Reuven Rubin, Nachum Gutman, Sionah Tagger, Arieh Allweil, Haim Gliksberg, Yossef Zaritsky, Leon Arie Fein, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Elias Newman.

1932 The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem Artists: Pinchas Litvinovsky, Gutman Nachum

Allweil, Arieh

1936 First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' Steimatzky Galleries, Jerusalem Artists: Gutman, Nahum

Holzman, Shimshon

Moshe Mokady, Miron Sima, Jakob Steinhardt, Zeev Ben Zvi, Moshe Ziffer, Allweil, Arieh.

1944 Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists

Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Building, Tel Aviv Artists: Hermann Struck,Moshe Sternschuss, Arie Reznik, Aaron Priver, Yitzhak Danziger, Itzhak Zvi Aldouby, Menachem Shemi, Moshe Castel, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Yohanan Simon, Marcel Janco.