Beloosesky Gallery is interested in purchasing paintings or drawings by Yehezkel Streichman.
Please call (917) 749-4557 or email us at info@beloosesky.com
Yehezkal Streichman was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1906. Streichman emigrated to Palestine to begin his art education at the influential Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. There he would study art and architecture, and continue his studies in Paris and Florence.
It was painting that Streichman would receive the most notoriety and accomplishment for. He became a member of the modernist art group “New Horizons” in the 1940s. This group style was often referred to as lyrical abstraction, with his signature style of applying thick layers of paint in succession with rich vibrant colors.
Yehezkal Streichman taught art throughout his life, starting in the Kibbutz’s in the 1930s and 40s, and then at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv until 1979.
His style had a profound effect on the younger artists of the day, and was recognized internationally at the Venice Bienneale of 1948, 1954, and 1966.
Streichman received numerous awards during his life, receiving the Dizengoff Prize (1941, 1944, 1954, 1969), the Ramat Gan Prize (1956), The Moadon Milo Prize (1968) The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, awarded by the Israel Museum (1974), the Histradrut Prize (1986), and the Israel Prize (1990).
Yehezkal Streichman passed away in 1993 in Tel Aviv, and would have a street in his old neighborhood in Tel Aviv named after him acknowledging his impart of the arts.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
1945
Tel Aviv Museum
1948
Participated in 24th Venice Biennale
1953
Tel Aviv Museum
1954
28th Venice Biennale
1955
3rd Sao Paulo Biennale
1960
Tel Aviv Museum
1961
Israel Gallery, Tel Aviv
1966
33rd Venice Biennale
1967
Beit Yad Labanim Museum
1969
M. Riebenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
1974
Israel Museum
Yodfat Gallery
1975
Tel Aviv Museum
Beit Uri and Rami Museum
1977
Mishkan Le-omanut
Berta Udang Gallery
1979
M. Riebenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
1980
Haifa Msueum of Modern Art
Museum of Art, Ein Harod
Hillel Gallery, Jerusalem
1981
Neomi Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1985
Mishkenot Sha-ananim, Jerusalem
1986
The Knesset, Jerusalem
1987
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1987
Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1989
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Hecht Museum, Haifa
1990
Beersheba Museum of Israeli Art, Beersheba
1991
Tefen Opem Museum, Tefen
1998
Aharon Kahana House, Ramat Gan
EDUCATION
1924-26
Bezalel, Jerusalem
1927
Studied architecture in Paris
1928-31
Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
1931-36
Returned to Kovno
1944
Avni Institute, Tel Aviv, painting
TEACHING
1936
Painting in elementary and high schools
1941
Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, painting
PRIZES
1941, 1944, 1954, 1969
Dizengoff Prize
1956
Ramat Gan Prize
1968
Moadon Milo Prize
1974
Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1986
Histadrut Prize
1990
Israel Prize.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
1941-44
A member of Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov
1945-48
Founded "The Studio", Tel Aviv, with Stematsky
1948
One of the founders of "New Horizon" Group
1981
Made an Honorary citizen of Tel Aviv
1992
Honorary President, Association of Artists and Sculptors