10 Facts About Yosl Bergner

Yosl Bergner, known as Josl, was an Israeli painter.

Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, grew up in Warsaw, Poland, lived in Melbourne, Australia from 1937 until 1948, when he moved to Israel.

Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw, Poland.

Yosl Bergner emigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery School in Melbourne until the outbreak of World War II.

Yosl Bergner served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School.

Yosl Bergner encouraged them to go beyond their traditional landscape style and introduced a more radical concern for working families, thus having an important impact on Australian art.

Yosl Bergner left Australia in 1948 and after two years of traveling and exhibiting in Paris, Montreal and New York City, he settled in Israel.

Yosl Bergner lived in Safed, where he encouraged and befriended artist Shalom Moskovitz.

Yosl Bergner designed scenery and costumes for the Yiddish and Hebrew theatres, particularly for the plays of Nisim Aloni, and has illustrated many books.

The acme of Yosl Bergner's paintings is his allegorical works; he uses kitchen tools such as squashed pots, oil lamps, wrecks and cracked jugs and he anthropomorphizes them.