Nissan Engel, Mod French Oil Painting Semi Abstract Colorful Composition Israeli Nissan Engel, c.1950's-1960's

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Hand signed by artist lower left Guerriers (the Warriors)
Oil on board
Dimensions: 24 x 18 in.
Circa 1950's-1960's

NISSAN … Read more Hand signed by artist lower left Guerriers (the Warriors)
Oil on board
Dimensions: 24 x 18 in.
Circa 1950's-1960's

NISSAN ENGEL Israel, b. 1931 Multidisciplinary Israeli French artist Nissan Engel was born in Haifa, Israel in 1931. Best known for his mixed media works, Engel incorporates myriad techniques and materials to create his expressive, uniquely cohesive compositions. Nissan Engel, painter, born in Haifa, Israel, 1931. His family genealogy goes back to the 1492 Expulsion From Spain.

Education 1952-56 New Bezalel, Jerusalem, BA 1957 Vitrage and scenic art, Strasbourg, France Environmental Sculptures 1966 28 Stained Glass Windows for Temple Israel, Lawrence, New York, 1968 16 Stained Glass Windows for the Hoffberger Chapel, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Maryland, USA
At the age of 17, Engel enlisted in the army and served as a combat aircraft machine gunner in the war for independence. Upon leaving the army, he entered Jerusalem’s prestigious Beaux-Arts Bezalel, where Grand Master Mordechai Ardon would be one of his professors. After graduating from Bezalel, Engel moved to France where he eventually earned a diploma in theater design from the Centre Dramatique de l’Est in Strasbourg. In the mid-1950s, he made his way to Paris where he put his training to work as a stage and costume designer. In 1960, Engel exhibited his paintings at the Galerie André Weil, the first of many successful shows with the gallery. Five years later, he moved to New York City where he continued to produce figurative and representational paintings of landscapes, still lifes, and equestrian themes in a graphic and colorful style.
Engel’s style continuously evolved over the course of his long and prolific career. He explored and perfected new modes of creation and expression, branching out from painting to incorporate drawing, collage, and printmaking into his pieces. Influenced by prominent European Expressionists such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Marino Marini, and Wassily Kandinsky, Engel also studied and drew inspiration from the work of conceptual artists Oppenheim and Beuys, and from friends and colleagues of the abstract expressionist New York School.
Since his first shows in the late 1950s, Engel has regularly exhibited at top galleries in France, Israel, the United States, and around the globe. His art can be found in the collections of the Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo; the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel; Elf Atochem Corporation, Paris, The Jewish Museum, New York City; Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo; The Detroit Institute of Arts; the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia and more.

Group Exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, 1956
Artists: Gershon Knispel, Yehiel Krize, Moshe Mokady, Yosef Zaritsky, Arieh Merzer, Shmuel Katz, Moshe Kagan, Hannah Eshel, Nissan Engel, Jacob Pins. Israeli Landscape,
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa 1956
Artists: Mordechai Ardon, Louise Schatz, Nachum Gutman, Bergner, Audrey Michael Gross, Mordechai Levanon, Marcel Janco, Zvi Mairovich, Shraga Weil, Abraham Naton, Moshe Gat, Naomi Shemi, Engel, Nissan.
Chess in Art, Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa 1976
Artists: Michael Argov, Yaacov Agam, Moshe Castel, Sammy Briss, Nissan Engel, Zvi Milshtein, Dani Karavan, Jean David, Eli Ilan, Oded Feingersh, Raffi Kaiser. See less