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LOTE 26:
David Labkovski - The Meron Mountains from Safed, Oil on Canvas, 1971.
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David Labkovski - The Meron Mountains from Safed, Oil on Canvas, 1971.
David Labkovski (Lithuania / Israel, 1906-1991) - The Meron Mountains from Safed, Oil on Canvas, 1971.
Signed and dated.
Framed.
65x128cm.
Frame: 82x146cm.
David Labkovski, born in Lithuania.
Was a member of group of plastic artists, ''Young Vilna''.
In 1932 he went to Moscow where he worked as a set designer at the National Yiddish theater.
Was suspected of anti-Soviet activity and sent to a work camp in Siberia, where he remained until the end of World War II.
Returning to Vilna after the war he was deeply shocked by the destruction of the Vilna Jewish community.
Immigrated to Israel in 1958.
From 1960 lived and worked in Safed.
He dedicated his life to commemorating Jewish life in Vilna and the Jewish shtetl, also depicted in his work the people and landscapes of Safed and Israel.
In 1997 Museum of Jewish Art opened in Ramat Gan to house his thousands of drawings.
