Arie Aroch was an Israeli painter and diplomat born in Kharkiv, now Ukraine and then part of the Russian Empire.
23 Facts About Arie Aroch
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Arie Aroch's painting style included unstructured scribbling and drawing, and it influenced a broad range of artists, including Raffi Lavie, Aviva Uri, etc.
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In 1971, Arie Aroch was awarded the Israel Prize in Painting for his work.
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Arie Aroch was born in November 1908 in Kharkiv, which was then part of the Russian Empire and today is part of Ukraine.
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Arie Aroch's name was Lyova Nisselvich, the youngest of the three children of Rivka-Shulamit and Haim Nisselvich.
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Arie Aroch's father was a wealthy merchant active in Zionist political circles in Tzarist Russia.
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Arie Aroch's teachers included the painter Shmuel Ben David, the enamel artist Aaron Shaul Schur, and Jacob Eisenberg, in whose workshops he made ornamental ceramic tiles, for signs, among other things.
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In 1934 Arie Aroch went to Paris and studied there in the Academie Colarossi.
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Arie Aroch married Ellen Albeck, whom he met on the boat on the way back from Paris.
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At the beginning of the decade Arie Aroch painted a series of scenes of Zichron Yaakov and Haifa, in which he lived off and on from 1942 to 1946, while he served in the British army.
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From 1956 to 1959, Arie Aroch served as the Israeli ambassador to Brazil.
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In 1959 Arie Aroch was named the Israeli ambassador to Sweden.
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Arie Aroch's stay in Sweden released a great burst of creative energy in him.
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Arie Aroch created variations of this image, arriving in the end at a sort of abstract form placed within an oval frame.
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In 1963 Arie Aroch returned from Sweden and settled in Jerusalem.
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Arie Aroch established a professional contact with Bertha Urdang, director of the Rina Gallery, Jerusalem, who mounted an exhibition of his works during this year.
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Between 1967 and 1970, Arie Aroch participated in a number of group exhibitions.
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In 1970, Arie Aroch underwent an operation for the removal of a tumor.
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In 1971, Arie Aroch was awarded the Israel Prize in Painting.
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For years Arie Aroch's work was perceived as being on the periphery of Israeli abstract art.
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Arie Aroch invested his time in many interviews in order to emphasize his interest in formalism, in its forms and in its way of constructing a painting.
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Arie Aroch was perceived as having made the connection between local Israeli Judaism and universalism.
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Arie Aroch influenced young artists more by his thoughts, by his way of combining different images with each other in his paintings, by the apparently meaningless lack of pathos that characterizes his work, by his techniques.