Three Angles: Oil paintings / Ephraim Lifshitz 1998 Catalog signed by an artist

Three Angles: Oil paintings / Ephraim Lifshitz 1998 Catalog signed by an artist
Catalog of the exhibition dedicated to  Yitzhak Pugacz - Israeli painter.

Hebrew and English

Colorful illustrations

29 x 30 cm

650 grams

Good condition

Efraim Lifshitz (1909-2004) was an Israeli painter born in Poland .

Efraim Lifshitz was born in Stolin , Poland in 1909 to a religious family of 12 children. Lifshitz studied at the "cheder" and at the "Tarbut" school. After graduating, Lifshitz was active in Zionist frameworks in the town and worked as an autodidact painter. From 1933 to 1935 he lived in Paris , France . In 1935 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. He worked in the building and in the " Ohel " theater. In 1937 he joined the Haganah . During the War of Independence he was drafted into the IDF by the Haganah underground, and in 1944 he studied painting with Aharon Avni . Between 1948-1945 he studied painting in the studio of Yehezkel Streichman and Avigdor Steimatzky in Tel Aviv.

In 1951, Lifshitz was one of the founders of the " Enrichment Group " and exhibited in all its exhibitions. Between 1952 and 1974 he worked for Bank Hapoalim . In 1953 he was one of the founders of the Ein Hod artists 'village and in 1970 he joined the Safed Artists' Colony and served as chairman of the Kirya, and in 1964 he was a member of the Rostrum group.

Lipschitz's early works, prior to his immigration to Israel, were not preserved. It contained decorative works, backdrops, figurative watercolors, and more. After his rise, Lipschitz changed his painting style, which became expressive, influenced by the works of the Paris School . During the 1950s, the influence of the New Horizons group was evident in his works. His works contained landscape descriptions and openings made of free brush strokes, using contour lines and decorative shapes. The Ein Gedi series of paintings from the 1960s is an abstraction of nature made with a network of colored lines. In the late 1990s, following a car accident , he moved to painting in pastels.

As part of the commemoration of artists and stage performers of the Tel Aviv municipality, a memorial plaque was erected on the home of Efraim Lifshitz at 8 Arlosoroff Street and corner of Edward Bernstein 21 in Tel Aviv.