Zvi Ehrman, Israeli Modernist Safed Synagogue Interior Folk Art Watercolor Painting

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In this piece the artist choice of colors is vibrant, and there is minimal blending of them. The artist takes … Read more In this piece the artist choice of colors is vibrant, and there is minimal blending of them. The artist takes a naive, Folk Art approach at rendering the subject simplifying the figures to basic geometric shapes. Krakow, Poland, 1903 – Safed, Israel, 1993 Zvi Ehrman was a talented aquarellist who focused his work on Jewish subjects and landscape to Israel. He studied at the Art Academy of Krakow and taught art at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Krakow. He moved to Israel and became a prominent figure in the artist colony in Safed. Ehrman´s works are figurative and use soft pastel tones to capture the brilliance of the bright Israeli sun. See less