42 Facts About Yitzhak Frenkel

Yitzhak Frenkel, known as Isaac Frenkel or Alexandre Frenel, was an Israeli painter and sculptor, seen as the father of modern art in Israel.

Yitzhak Frenkel is accredited with bringing the influence of the l'Ecole de Paris to Israel, which until then was dominated by Orientalism.

Yitzhak Frenkel died in Tel Aviv in 1981 and was buried in Safed.

Yitzhak Frenkel was born in 1899 in Odessa, Russian Empire.

Yitzhak Frenkel was a great-grandson of the famous Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev.

Yitzhak Frenkel immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1919 as part of the first wave of settlers of the Third Aliyah, on board the famous Roslan Ship.

Yitzhak Frenkel established the Ha-Tomer artists' cooperative along with the painters Konstantinovsky, Mrs Had-Gadia and the sculptor Halperin.

Yitzhak Frenkel then traveled to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere at the studios of the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle and painter Henri Matisse.

Towards the end of 1920, Yitzhak Frenkel Frenel traveled to Egypt where he showcased his works in an exhibition before returning to Paris.

Yitzhak Frenkel lived in Montparnasse and worked as well as exhibited his work with his contemporaries, Chaim Soutine, Michel Kikoine, Jules Pascin along with other Jewish artists of the Ecole de Paris.

Yitzhak Frenkel would spend time in La Ruche in Montparnasse where he would meet other painters of the era.

Yitzhak Frenkel would participate in long sessions with his fellow Jewish artists; he described thus their art: "members of the minority characterized by restlessness whose expressionism is therefore extreme in its emotionalism".

Yitzhak Frenkel exhibited at the Salon des Independants alongside other artists of his time, such as Soutine.

Yitzhak Frenkel exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, and the Salon des Arts Sacres.

Yitzhak Frenkel returned to Palestine in 1925, where he revolutionized the visual arts.

Yitzhak Frenkel opened the Histadrut Art School in Tel Aviv.

Yitzhak Frenkel's students included Shimshon Holzman, Mordechai Levanon, David Hendler, Joseph Kossonogi, and Siona Tagger.

Yitzhak Frenkel was a mentor to Bezalel students Avigdor Stematsky, Yehezkel Streichman, Moshe Castel, and Arie Aroch.

Yitzhak Frenkel's style was closer to the abstract painting to which he was exposed in Paris than the orientalism that was popular in Palestine at that time.

Isaac Yitzhak Frenkel, was the heralder of modern art in Israel.

Yitzhak Frenkel wished to establish in Israel a new generation of artists that knew and were aware of the artistic culture of France since Cezanne.

Yitzhak Frenkel wished to make his students aware of the developments occurring abroad as well as the intellectual basis of French art.

Yitzhak Frenkel felt that he could not express the small settlement's struggle for survival in abstract art, therefore he sought other forms.

Yitzhak Frenkel first encountered Safed after his Aliya to Israel in 1919, the ancienty city left a deep impression on the young artist.

Yitzhak Frenkel was entranced and mystified by the city's colours, its shades of blue, the chants of prayer and the alleyways.

Yitzhak Frenkel, found in Safed a spirituality and inspiration that was harder to find elsewhere.

Yitzhak Frenkel painted in Safed the city glowing in green and his signature red and blue.

Yitzhak Frenkel painted the rabbis and their students, painted scenes of Jewish life.

Yitzhak Frenkel painted the faces of Safed's residents and the powerful landscape of Mount Meron and more.

Yitzhak Frenkel will continue engaging in the sort of work until 1949, continuing his work both for the "HaOhel" theater as well as the "HaBima" theater.

Yitzhak Frenkel painted Safed, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Negev desert as well as the Galilee.

Yitzhak Frenkel made 13 exhibitions on the motif of Safed up-to 1950.

Yitzhak Frenkel searched the pictorial in the landscapes of Israel, seeking to feel the land.

Yitzhak Frenkel painted the first meeting of the Knesset as well as the first meeting of the military committee of the IDF.

Yitzhak Frenkel made portraits of the first 120 MKs.

Yitzhak Frenkel chose to distance himself from most of the artists of the colony, leading to the colony's resentment of him.

Yitzhak Frenkel was the first painter chosen by the State of Israel to represent the Jewish State at the Venice Bienniale.

Yitzhak Frenkel is considered one of the most important Jewish "Ecole de Paris" painters; along with Soutine, Modigliani, Kikoine, Kremegne, Mane Katz and Pascin.

In July 1979, Yitzhak Frenkel had a one-man show at the Orangerie in Paris.

Yitzhak Frenkel died in 1981 in Tel Aviv and was buried in Safed.

Yitzhak Frenkel won the Dizengoff Prize for painting four times, in 1938,1939,1940 and again in 1948.

Yitzhak Frenkel took part in the 24th and 25th Venice Biennales, firstly a pre-independence exhibit and then represented the first time Israel participated.