בידספיריט | 1911-1997. Franz Bernheimer פרנץ ברנהיימר

1911-1997. Franz Bernheimer פרנץ ברנהיימר - קומפוזיציה אנטומית מופשטת. רישום ואקוורל, 65X50 ס”מ, חתום ומתוארך Franz Bernheimer, German/Israeli painter, born in Germany 1911-1997. Franz Bernheimer was born in Munich, Germany to a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family. In the 1930s, he studied biology, medicine and art, first in Germany and after the rise of the Nazis, in Italy and Switzerland. In 1939, he immigrated to the United States via Cuba. He studied art and painting at Yale University, and then lectured in art history, specializing in the art of the Renaissance. In 1957-1958, he traveled to Italy. In 1961, he immigrated to Israel and settled in Kiryat Tivon. Bernheimer's early work was destroyed in the bombing in World War II, and very little of his paintings from Cuba survived. His mature work consists mainly of abstract and semi-abstract drawings that conjure up the human body and landscapes using a combination of line and patches of color.