Avigdor Stematsky

Avigdor Stematsky
Avigdor Stematsky Photographer: Stanley I. Batkin
Born	1908 Odessa
Nationality	Israeli
Education	In Pre-Independence Israel: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Histadrut Art Studio under Yitzhak Frenkel In Paris: Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Académie Colarossi
Known for	Painting
Movement	Israeli art

Israeli painter, known for abstract art (1908–1989)

Avigdor Stematsky (1908–1989) was a Russian Empire-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.^[1]

Biography

Stematsky was born in 1908 in Odessa. He studied under Isaac Frenkel Frenel in the Histadrut Art Studio. He joined the Massad group in Tel Aviv.^[2] Following the advice of Frenkel, he was among those students of Frenkel who left for Paris to further their studies. He did so in 1929, when he went to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Académie Colarossi.

He was one of the founders of the New Horizons group.^[3] He held his first solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art at the age of 31.^[4] In the constellation of Israel art, Stematsky and Yehezkiel Streichman stand out as a pair. Although each developed his own distinct, individual style, there are many points of affinity between them: a common background as students of Bezalel in the 1920s, a response to the influences of the Jewish School of Paris in the 1930s, and of the "modern" (late cubist) art in the 1940s and fifties, when they were also leading teachers in Tel Aviv.

Gallery

Etude, 1962
Israel Museum Collection
B95.0596
Painting, 1975-76
Israel Museum Collection
B78.0004

Education

1925–26 – Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, Tel Aviv
1926–28 – Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, with Arie Aroch, Moshe Castel and others
1928 – Technion, Haifa, Architecture
1929 – Yitzhak Frenkel Studio, Tel Aviv
1930–31 – Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, with Aharon Avni

Teaching

1954-58 Studio with Yehezkel Streichman which was active until 1948
1952–60 Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv
1973, 1977 Haifa University and Avni Institute of Art and Design

Awards and prizes

1941 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv
1956 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv
1958 Ramat Gan Prize
1965 Milo Club Prize
1967 First Prize Tower of David Exhibition, Jerusalem
1973 The Meir Sherman Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1976 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

References

^ "Avigdor Stematsky, 1908–1989". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
^ "Yitzhak Frenkel". www.berdichev.org. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
^ Art Encyclopedia: Avigdor Stematsky
^ "Avigdor Stematsky, 1908–1989". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-09-28.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Avigdor Stematsky.

Avigdor Stematsky collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
"Avigdor Stematsky". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
Art of Avigdor Stematsky at Europeana. Retrieved February 21, 2012