Moshe Matus (Matusovsky)Large Tel Aviv Orchestra Israeli Bezalel School Modernist Painting Moshe Matus, c. 1930's-1940's

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Moshe (Matusovski) Matus (Polish Israeli , 1908-1958),
Depicting an orchestral concert.
Hand signed lower right.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 31" x … Read more Moshe (Matusovski) Matus (Polish Israeli , 1908-1958),
Depicting an orchestral concert.
Hand signed lower right.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 31" x W 37", (Sight) H 21" x W 28"


Moshe Matus (Matusovski) 1908, Warsaw, Russian Poland - November 23, 1958 Toronto, Canada. was a Polish Israeli modernist painter who lived during the last decade of his life in The United States and Canada. Matus was born in 1908 in the Russian city ​​of Warsaw, into a traditional and Zionist family, the eldest of the three children of Dr. Josef Matusovsky, a dentist, and was a member of Hashomer Hatzair in Warsaw in 1924. When he was 15, He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in the 1920s with Boris Schatz and was educated at the Herzliya Gymnasium where he studied painting and sculpture. He studied for several years at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Bose-R) in Paris. He returned to Tel Aviv and lived there on Sheinkin Street. From the 30s was one of the most prominent artists in the country. he exhibited In shows general as well as in solo shows - which exhibition at the Herzliya in Tel Aviv, which opened Benzion friends (1932); in Allenby 15, Tel Aviv (1935) exhibition in Pomrock , which opened the poet Saul Tchernichovsky and Moses (1936), at the Steimatzky Gallery in Jerusalem , opened by Dr. Moshe Duchan (March 23, 1937); An exhibition at the Cosmopolitan Gallery in Tel Aviv (formerly the Bach Gallery, 1 Hess Street), opened by Mayor Israel Rokach (March 5, 1938); and an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum (1946).
He painted the stage set for the play "Warsaw" staged by Habima Theater and other public events in Israel. The Painters and Sculptors Association Exhibition, Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Meir Dizengoff, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv 1936
with artists: Avni, Aharon Abramovich, Pinchas Allweil, Arieh Berger, Genia Gutman, Nachum Zaritsky, Yosef Levanon, Mordechai Stematsky, Avigdor Sigad, Eliahu Ovadyahu, Shmuel Kovarsky, Yehoshua Castel, Moshe Krize, Yehiel Rubin, Reuven Steinhardt, Jakob Struck, Hermann
In the 1930s and 1940s, dozens of Hebrew children's books were published in Israel. Reminiscent of Mopp (Max Oppenheim) a famous Viennese artist.
His paintings were characterized by dynamism and great pathos aspired to express the real and social events of the Jewish Palestinian experience, as it was portrayed in the soul of a young artist in those years of British mandate Palestine.
His artistic work gained interest and appreciation and his paintings were purchased by collectors and by institutions and museums in Israel, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Mount Scopus) and the Tel Aviv Museum which purchased four of his paintings.
In 1952 he moved from New York to the city of Montreal , Canada and was also very successful and appreciated. His first exhibition there, which was shown at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the city on April 8, 1952 , was opened by Thibodu Renfra ( EN ), President of the Supreme Court of Canada and Acting Governor-General. Two and a half years later, in 1955, he moved to Toronto, where he lived until his death, despite his longing for Israel. His wife was a teacher at a Jewish elementary school in the city.
He has exhibited in the United States, Canada and Europe , and has received favorable reviews and reviews in the general and Jewish press. His style was a synthesis between the figurative and the abstract and he proved his ability in academic painting : In the spring of 1958 he was appointed by the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews (CCCJ)
His paintings belong to the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston ( AN ) and the Milwaukee Art Museum ( AN ) ; Others were purchased by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Art Department of the University of Chicago , the University of Miami ( Coral Gables Campus) and the University of Notre Dame , Indiana , the Miami Public Library Art Center, the Milwaukee Public Library, The urban center of Philadelphia , Chicago , Los Angeles ; And other paintings came to their private collections Eleanor Roosevelt , Albert Einstein, Will Rogers, and Julius Klein ( Ann ) .
Moshe Matus died of a brain hemorrhage in November 1958 at the General Hospital of Toronto at the age of 50. He left his wife, father and brother. He was buried in Toronto and in July 1963 he was buried in Israel. He was buried in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery . See less