Yehezkel Streichman - Artist Info

About Yehezkel Streichman

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Yechezkel Streichman
  • Biography

    Yehezkel Streichman was born in 1906 in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, and studied painting with the Jewish artist Tsasen (Masenblum). In 1924 he immigrated to Israel and studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. After completing his studies he studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris and later at the Gallery of the Academy of Florence. In 1936, Streichman returned to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv, where he met Tzilla Hacohen-Wallach with whom he married, and painted often over the years. Streichman was part of the Avni Institute of Art, one of the founders of Hastudia school of painting and one of the founders of Ofakim Hadashim - participating in all of its group exhibitions....

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