{"product_id":"middle-eastern-men-oil-painting-austrian-israeli-modernist-tel-aviv-museum","title":"Middle Eastern Men Oil Painting Austrian Israeli Modernist Tel Aviv Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 24.0, W: 20.5, D: 2.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eARIEH 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis depicts Oriental Middle Eastern men in traditional garb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have heard them described as Sephardic Rabbis or Kabbalists Jerusalem They might also be Bedouins or Arabs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArieh 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe exhibited with them in the 1920’s, and emigrated to Palestine in 1926.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was one of the founders of the Tel Aviv\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand created large scale murals of the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeaching: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducation 1921-25 Art Academy, Vienna, Austria 1921-25 Dresden Academy, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeaching Herzliya Gymnasium High-School, Israel, art. Tel Aviv High School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwards And Prizes 1937 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1946 Dizengoff Prize 1955 Turov Prize for Bible Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMishkan Le'omanut, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1932 The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem Artists: Pinchas Litvinovsky, Gutman Nachum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllweil, Arieh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1936 First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' Steimatzky Galleries, Jerusalem Artists: Gutman, Nahum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolzman, Shimshon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoshe Mokady, Miron Sima, Jakob Steinhardt, Zeev Ben Zvi, Moshe Ziffer, Allweil, Arieh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1944 Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628629426474,"sku":"a_17581622S1","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_44EB9B33BE1849FEAB633ACE7AF4ABBC_master_46c79c15-e7e5-44e3-a362-c06d8936bdb2.jpg?v=1780512056","url":"https:\/\/lionsgallery.com\/products\/middle-eastern-men-oil-painting-austrian-israeli-modernist-tel-aviv-museum","provider":"Lions Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}