Pinchas Litvinovsky - Artist Info

About Pinchas Litvinovsky

  • Biography

    Pinchas Litvinovsky born 1894 in Russia, died in1985.

    He opened a painting studio with Mokady.

    Awards and Prizes:
    1939 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv Jaffa
    1980 Israel Prize for Painting (with Anna Ticho)

    Pinchas Litvinovsky was born to a religious family in the Ukraine. At the age of 18, he began studying at the Odessa Art school, where he met Boris Schatz. The latter invited him to study at his school, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and that he did - the young Litvinovsky immigrated to Israel and studied at Schatz's Bezalel for one year. In 1912, Litvinovsky rebelled and quit the institution (together with Reuven Rubin), the cause was a fundamental disagre...

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