Yosl Bergner : art as a meeting of cultures

A$25 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

With a preface by Bernard Smith. Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated. A fine copy, as new. The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950. Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner s Australian years and provides well-researched and previously unpublished insights into the artist s principal themes. Bergner first exhibited with Arthur Boyd and Noel Counihan in Melbourne in 1939 and from then he developed an increasingly social-realist approach to painting. Today, he is one of Israel s leading painters, but he continues to visit and exhibit works in Australia. the publisher Yosl Bergner passed away in 2017 at the age of 96.

• Binding: Hardcover

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