Pinchas Litvinovsky - Artist Info

About Pinchas Litvinovsky

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    Pinchas Litvinovsky was born in 1894 in Russia to a religious family in the Ukraine and died in 1985. At the age of 18, he began studying at the Odessa Art school, where he met Boris Schatz, who 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 disagreement over the customaries of the institution: the conception of art, style, contents, and teaching methods. After leaving the school, he traveled to Russia and studied at The Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.

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