Modernist Israeli Judaica Jewish Rabbi Mixed Media Collage Painting Moshe Katz

Dimensions: H: 37.5, W: 25.25 IN

Rabbis, Jewish Scholars over collaged Hebrew text

Dimensions: framed 37.5 X 25.25

canvas 24 X 36 inches Moshe Katz ( Romanian, Israeli ) Moshe Katz was born March 2 1937 in

Bucharest, Romania. With his parents, he fled the Nazis and with much difficulty successfully made it safely to Israel. An Israeli citizen, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, as well as at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Although not an exponent of one dominating technique of painting, Moshe has been fascinated in recent months with the textures and expressions he is able to obtain with the pallette knife.

Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne and Gauguin are his idols, and the power of Mexican art has a deep fascination for him. With elements of Folk Art combined with a sophisticated technique. He enjoys working in clay but finds painting in oil his greatest outlet for the stories he has to tell through his pictures. In addition to an outstanding collection of books featuring the works of the great masters, his shelves are lined with texts about hypnosis. Studying about the art of hypnotizing provides him with a mental exercise far removed from his highly developed art of expressing himself on canvas. He has exhibited with the Painters and Sculptors Association in Israel, Haifa and the North along with artists: Yaacov Agam, Sela (Blaustein), Emanuel

Pinhassi,

Pasternak, Anna, Chaltiel, Joseph

Schwartz, Nira

Shemer, Aviva,

Fadel, Mohamed Bishara, Sana,

Menashe Kadishman, Menashe

Shalhevet, Yitzchak Frumin, Moshe

Rosen, Maureen

Moshe was born March 2, 1937 in Bucharest, Romania with his parents, he fled from the Nazis and after stops in many countries, reached Israel. His paintings have been displayed by Arts International in galleries across the country since the fall of 1965. He received second prize in the Israeli Group Artist Show in Halfa in 1959.