Mordechai Avniel

Mordecai Dickstein (later Avniel) was born in 1900 in Parychy, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus).Avniel regularly showed his work in group exhibitions of the Painters and Sculptors' Association of Israel.While roaming the country extensively, I gradually absorbed its atmosphere, its lights and moods, the view of mountains and valleys, the Sea of Galilee and the expanse of the Mediterranean.My motif is always the non-static landscape with all its contrasts: the rays of dawn, the stillness of the day's heat, the evening's twilight, radiance and dimness, wind and rain, a night's storm."Avniel's manipulations of light and colour share much with those of compatriot artists Shimshon Holzman and Joseph Kossonogi.
Minsk GovernorateRussian EmpireBelarusIsraelRussianIsraeliBezalel Academy of Arts and DesignpaintersculptorParychyYekaterinburgRussiaBezalel Academy of Art and DesignJerusalemPalestinePetah TikvaBoris SchatzRamat GanHistadrutVenice BiennaleFairleigh Dickinson UniversityMount CarmelSea of GalileeMediterraneanDead SeaShimshon HolzmanJoseph KossonogiPablo PicassoSerge PoliakoffMarc ChagallHans ErniPaul-Émile BorduasSmithsonian Institution