Israel Hershberg

Israel Hershberg (Hebrew: ישראל הרשברג; born 1948) is a figurative painter who lives and works in Jerusalem.In 1998, Hershberg founded the Jerusalem Studio School, a private art school in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood that offers intensive training in drawing and painting within the figurative art tradition.[3] It is considered to be the first school established in Israel to teach realist painting based on observation in the tradition of the Old Masters.[4] Hershberg heads the school's “master class” program and is the artistic director of the JSS.[6] Hershberg believes that for a true painter, "reality is a continual feast, a never-ending delight to the eyes."
Hershberg at opening of solo exhibition in Israel Museum
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