בידספיריט | David Rakia (Austrian/Israeli 1928-2013)

David Rakia (Austrian/Israeli 1928-2013) - ”Jerusalem,” oil on canvas, 20 x 28 in., signed. Following the Six Day War, Jerusalem became a central theme in the artist's work. Rakia was born in Vienna in 1928 and came to Israel at the age of ten. With the end of the War of Independence he began studying with the artist Ardon, and afterwards attended the ”Bezalel” school. From l955-1960 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. His first showings, in a surrealistic symbolic style, were held at that time at the Musee d'art Modern in Paris, as well as in Switzerland. Upon his return to Israel in 1960, he began a series of drawings in which Hebrew letters played a central part. A year later an extensive individual exhibition of Rakia's work was held at the Tel Aviv Museum. (The Artists web site)