Natan HeberIsraeli Judaica Shtetl "The Lesson" Rabbi Studying Scene Naive Art Oil Painting

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Natan Heber was trained by his father in Poland to be a ritual slaughterer. In 1925, he joined the Zionist … Read more Natan Heber was trained by his father in Poland to be a ritual slaughterer. In 1925, he joined the Zionist movement "Mizrachi" and in 1936 immigrated to Palestine where he opened a poultry shop in Haifa. He began to paint at the age of sixty-one, after ill health forced him to retire. Driven by a need to memorialize his family and their shtetl community lost in the Holocaust, he drew scenes of traditional Jewish life. Unfamiliar with the conventions of scale and perspective, he set his heavily outlined frontal figures on steeply rising surfaces and often portrayed his father in monumental size to mark his importance. One of Israel's greatest naive-style painters. Along with Shalom of Safed, Kopel Gurwin and Gabriel Cohen, He is renowned as one of Israel's greatest living naive-style folk art painters, The Haifa Museum of Art will be opening the first ever Outsider Art exhibition (also known as Art Brut) in Israel in January 2013.
He was included in the show of Outsider art at Haifa Museum The exhibition included works by Classical Outsider artists, none of them have ever been shown in Israel - Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse, Hauser, Carlo Zinnelli, Bill Traylor, Minnie Evans, William Hawkins and Sam Doyle.
Along with them they showed works by major Israeli Autodidact artists, including Gabriel Cohen, Shalom of Safed (The Watchmaker of Safed), Moshe Elnatan, the Naive Haifa artists, Natan Haber, Shimshon Lemberger, Menachem Messinger and more.

Select References:
Goodman, Susan. A WORLD OF THEIR OWN: NAIVE ARTISTS FROM ISRAEL. Exh. cat. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1987, pp. 31-32, 37.

Select Exhibitions:
The Jewish Museum, New York, New York, A WORLD OF THEIR OWN: NAIVE ARTISTS FROM ISRAEL, May 19-August 16,1987.
The Jewish Musuem, New York, INNER REALITIES: SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS FROM THE JEWISH MUSEUM COLLECTION, September 2-October 23, 2005. See less