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Yossi Stern lithograph ( Signed & Dated 1955)
16.5" x 11.5 " Framed YOSSI STERN
20's century - Rumanian\Israeli
Jerusalem - 1955
Original on Lithograph
Title : Jerusalem.
Technique : Original printed lithograph
Paper size : 40 X 27.5 cm / 15.8 X 10.8 inch
Additional Information : The work is in pencil by the artist in Hebrew and Hand dated in pencil 1955
.This work was made for the portfolio "Jerusalem" that was edited by "MIRKA STUDIO LTD" Tel Aviv, 1956.
The watercolor in painted on a printed lithograph.
The work presents a of different view of the divided Jerusalem by an artist who devoted his all life to the image of Jerusalem and it's people.
Condition : Very good condition.
The Paintings of Yossi Stern
Yossi Stern (1923-1992) was a Jerusalem painter in the full sense of the word. Born in a small village in the north of Hungary, he came to Israel alone in 1940, when he was 17, on the illegal immigrant ship, Sakariya. During the boat trip he befriended two wealthy immigrants, and when they arrived in Palestine they took the budding artist under their wing and financed his studies at the Bezalel Art Academy.
Stern began to be recognized as a painter during the last years of the Mandate. He worked as a graphic editor and illustrator of the Hagana's official paper. After the founding of the State of Israel, he worked as an illustrator for various newspapers, such as Yediot Ahronot, Davar, and others.
Stern dealt mainly with the scenery around Jerusalem, the city that was his home from the time he came to Palestine, until the end of his life. His Jerusalem was an earthy city, dusty, turbulent and brimming with life, refusing to conform to its image of august holiness. Stern's unique style, a sort of "gruff naivety", became his trademark. He depicted the unsung heroes of the Jerusalem drama – its peddlers and beggars, roaming the social outskirts of the city that has always been torn between the sacred and the profane, between the specter of divinity and the mire of the earth.
Following is the obituary of the artist from the JTA Jewish News Archive, courtesy of Budd Margolis.
Artist Yossi Stern Dead at 69; Known As 'painter of Jerusalem'
By Gil Sedan
JERUSALEM, Mar. 16 (JTA) -1992
Yossi Stern, known as "the Painter of Jerusalem" and one of Israel's foremost artists, died Saturday at age 69.
Stern, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, put special emphasis in his drawings on depicting the "new Jew," a sabra, wearing shorts, sandals and looking tough.
But along with his popular drawings, particularly for children books and the press, Stern slowly earned a place as a serious painter whose work was known worldwide. He was also a popular art teacher at the Bezalel Arts Academy here.< ...