Naftali BezemRare German Israeli Surrealist Judaica Abstract Gouache Watercolor Painting, 1977

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A Surrealist Judaica scene of a bearded man (Rabbi) in a boat with Shabbat candlesticks.
Sight size: 17.75" x 22.5". … Read more A Surrealist Judaica scene of a bearded man (Rabbi) in a boat with Shabbat candlesticks.
Sight size: 17.75" x 22.5". Overall size with frame: 26.5" x31.5"
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם‎‎; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.

Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent under Nazi oppression, in constant fear for the safety of his parents, who perished in the Holocaust in the Polish Auschwitz concentration camp. Naftali emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939, at the age of fourteen with a Youth Aliyah group.
From 1943 to 1946, he studied art, painting and sculpture, at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon. He then spent three years studying in Paris. He was published by Editions Empreinte in Paris, France. They published, Jean Michel Folon, Sempe, Raoul Ubac, Raymond Savignac, Cesar, Bengt Lindstrom , Paul Aizpiri and many other modern masters.
In addition to painting and sculpture, Bezem created murals, wall reliefs, tapestry wall hangings, and stained glass windows. His most famous public works include a wall relief at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the ceiling mural in the main reception room at the President's Residence, Jerusalem.

Awards and recognition
In 1957, Bezem was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting

Group Exhibitions
Orit Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Artists: Yosef Zaritsky, Marcel Janco, Lea Nikel, Robert Baser, Bezem, Michael Druks,
Israeli Painting (Watercolors and Gouache)
Artists:
Pinchas Abramovich, Bezem, Naftali Nachum Gutman, Haim Gliksberg, Mordechai Levanon, Avigdor Stematsky, Avshalom Okashi, Yehiel Krize, Yehezkel Streichman

Solo Exhibitions
1959 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1960 Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv
1977The Rose Art Museum, Boston
1959 The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
1964Museum for Modern Art, Haifa
1970Mabat - Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1971Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem
1979 Rosenfeld Gallery (1952-2009), Tel Aviv
1983 Inauguration of Tapestry Beit Hasofer, Tel Aviv
1984 Sara Kishon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 Open Museum, Tefen
2003 Matsa Gallery, Ramat Gan See less