Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art – Skirball Cincinnati
Jacob’s Ladder

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections

Jacob’s Ladder Shalom Moskovitz (Safed 1887–1980 Safed) Safed, Israel, ca. 1965 Color lithograph, h. 18 3/8 x w. 26 7/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.14 The artist who became known as Shalom of Safed began to paint relatively late, at the age of fifty-five. By [...]

Monts du Negev (Negev Mountains)

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections

Monts du Negev (Negev Mountains) Marcel Janco (Romania 1895–1984, Ein Hod, Israel) Israel, ca. 1960 Screen print, h. 26 ½ x w. 19 5/8 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museun, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.10 Born to a wealthy family in Bucharest, Romania, Janco relocated to Zurich in his twenties and [...]

Toys

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections

Toys Yosl Bergner (Warsaw, Poland 1920-2017 Tel Aviv-Yafo) Tel Aviv, 1973 Lithograph, h. 26 ½ x w. 19 5/8 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.9 Bergner was born in Warsaw, Poland, reached Australia by the age of 17, and emigrated to Israel in 1951, settling first [...]

The Tea Drinkers

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections

The Tea Drinkers Yosl Bergner (Warsaw, Poland 1920–2017 Tel Aviv-Yafo) Tel Aviv, 1966 Hand colored lithograph, h. 13 ¾ x w. 19 9/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.8 Bergner was born in Warsaw, Poland, reached Australia by the age of 17, and emigrated to Israel [...]

Trees

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections

Trees Anna Ticho (Czechia 1894–1980 Jerusalem) Jerusalem, ca. 1968 Lithograph, h. 27 1/6 x w. 21 9/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.15 Ticho came to Jerusalem from Vienna when she was sixteen. She spent two years in Damascus during World War I while her husband [...]

Mountain B

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections

Mountain B Menashe Kadishman (Tel Aviv 1932–2015 Ramat Gan) Tel Aviv, 1974 Screenprint, h. 33 x w. 27 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.11 Born in Tel Aviv, Kadishman studied with Israeli sculptors Moshe Sternschuss and Rudi Lehmann in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem respectively in the [...]

Winter 1973 Ein Kerem

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections

Winter 1973 Ein Kerem Ivan Schwebel (West Virginia 1932–2011 Ein Kerem) Ein Kerem, 1973 Oil and pen on canvas, h. 25 1/6 x w. 28 5.16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.13 American-born Schwebel joined the United States Army during the Korean War, and when the [...]

Caesaria

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Israel, Special Collections

Caesarea Reuven Rubin (Romania 1893–1974 Tel Aviv) Caesarea, 1972 Color lithograph, h. 24 5/8 x w. 24 5/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.12 Romanian-born Rubin Zelicovici immigrated to Israel in 1912 and settled in Jerusalem, where he started to sign his drawings “Reuven” in Hebrew [...]

Man and Girl Over His Shoulder

Berman and Bloch Collection of Modern Israeli Art, Special Collections

Man and Girl Over His Shoulder David (Dudu) Gerstein (b. Jerusalem 1944) Jerusalem, ca. 1974 Watercolor, h. 18 3/8 x w. 26 7/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation, 2018.16 David (Dudu) Gerstein was born in Jerusalem to parents who immigrated from Poland. He showed artistic talent from [...]