Yona Fischer was an Israeli art curator and art critic.
22 Facts About Yona Fischer
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Yona Fischer was born in 1932 in Tel Aviv to Maurice Fischer and Dina.
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Yona Fischer was named after his grandfather, Jonah Fischer.
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Yona Fischer served as a guide for the children of new immigrants within the framework of the Gadna in Be'er Sheva and the suburbs of Jerusalem.
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Yona Fischer was first employed in the museum's archive of reproductions.
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Yona Fischer first interned with Willem Sandberg and Hans Jaffe at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and then at the Kunstmuseum in Basel with Georg Schmidt.
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Yona Fischer's meeting with the avant-garde art of the time, and especially with the artists of the "nouveau realisme", had a decisive influence on the formation of his artistic inclination.
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The museum's acquisitions policy, set by Yona Fischer, was based on three categories of artists: historical art, older and established artists, and young artists.
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Alongside Anna Ticho, Yitzhak Danziger, Arie Aroch and Joseph Zaritsky, among the prominent veteran artists he promoted, Yona Fischer presented many of the prominent painters of the 1930s and 1940s, including Chaim Glicksberg, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordechai Levanon and others.
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Yona Fischer introduced the works of prominent Israeli artists like Raffi Lavie and Moshe Kupferman.
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In 1977, Yona Fischer won the Israel Prize for his contribution to the field of art in Israel.
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In 1982, Yona Fischer founded the artists' workshops, with the support of the Jerusalem Foundation and other bodies.
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In 1991, following the curation of a solo exhibition of Nahum Tevet at the Tel Aviv Museum, Yona Fischer was offered the position of chief curator at the museum.
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Yona Fischer, who initiated the translation, donated a copy of the original edition of this text to Yad Ben Zvi.
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On January 4,2019, the exhibition "Long Lion: The Shape of the Thing" opened at the Israel Museum, which Yona Fischer curated with Amitai Mendelsohn.
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Yona Fischer lived in Tel Aviv-Yafo together with his partner, Nechama Kaplan.
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Yona Fischer died at his home on March 3,2022, at the age of 89.
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Yona Fischer's position focused in response to the activity of Haim Gamzo in the Tel Aviv Museum, who rejected this art and chose to present art in traditional media.
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Alongside his ongoing ties with the artists of both groups, Yona Fischer encouraged the activities of artists who bridged these two movements.
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Kupferman's working relationship with Yona Fischer was long and significant during both of their artistic careers.
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In 1969, Yona Fischer curated the first museum solo exhibition for Kupferman at the Israel Museum.
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The concept of art of Kupferman's works, which Yona Fischer sought to establish, emphasized the artistic work process through the work processes of drawing and erasing.