David Hendler: Sea of Galilee Kinneret / Israeli Jewish Modernism Holyland

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David Hendler: Sea of Galilee Kinneret / Israeli Jewish Modernism Holyland:
$295.00

David Hendler

1904, Kiev, Ukraine - 1984, Tel Aviv, Israel

Figures by Sea of Galilee, 1950s

Original Hand-Signed Watercolor -
circa the 1950s

Artist Name: David Hendler

Title:Figures by Sea of Galilee

Signature Description:Hand-signedlower right

Technique:Watercolor on paper

Image Size:50 x70 cm / 19.69\" x 27.56\" inc

Framed Size:The painting is unframedCondition: In overall good condition, slightwrinklesalong the margins.

Artist\'s Biography:

David Hendler (1904-1984) anIsraelipainter, who was awarded theDizengoffPrizefor painting and was called \"thepainterofTel Aviv\".

David Hendler was born in 1904 in Kiev, the Russian Empire (today Ukraine), to a Hasidic family.
When he was four, the family moved to Prague. As a teenager, he learned copper beating and tinsmithing, and found work in these trades. He also studied drawing privately with Prof. Pichel of the Academy of Art in Prague.
In 1924, he immigrated to the Land of Israel as a pioneer on his own and joined Gdud Ha\'avoda. From 1929, he devoted himself to painting.
In 1936, Hendler became a member of “Massad”, a group of young local artists, such as Aharon Avni, Avigdor Stematzky, Arie Aroch, Joseph Kossonogi, Zvi Shor, Mordechai Levanon, and Israel Paldi.
His work from that period shows the influence of modernist French painting.
In the mid-1940s, Hendler met the artist Aviva Uri, who began to study drawing with him. They married in 1963.
In the 1950s, he rarely showed his work.
In 1961, his drawings were exhibited at Bezalel\'s national museum and in 1977, Tel Aviv Museum mounted a solo exhibition of his work.Hendler is known for his drawings and sketches of people and street scenes, many of them in small format: he had a delicate sense ofcolor, and his drawings, painted with a fingernail and varied withafewwaterstains, were common in many houses inTel Avivand other cities throughout Israel.
In essence, Hendlerwas an extraordinary drawercharacterized by the lightness of his touchon paper and the delicacy of the drawing line.His nude paintings showed the influence ofHenri Matisse.
Handler\'s had a great influence on drawing in Israel, which is evident in the works ofAryeh Navon,AvigdorSteimatzky and others.
The main motifs in his paintings are workers, horses and other working animals, the old houses in Tel Aviv and the promenade of Tel Aviv.
During his lifetime Hendler painted many works of art to make a living.
He could finish creating a painting in a few minutes.He made a modest living so he was forced to sell his works door to door trying to sell his pictures for pennies.
His had a great influence on the painter,Aviva Uri. His works constitute one of the most faithful and humane documentation of the beginning of the Zionist revival in the Land of Israel.
David Hendler died inTel Aviv in 1984and was buried inthe Kiryat Shaul cemetery.

Education
1918 Private drawing lessons with Professor Pichel, Art Academy of Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Studied art with Yitzhak Frenkel
Awards and Prizes
1938 Dizengoff Prize
1945-46, Dizengoff Prize
1948 Dizengoff Prize

Major Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

1946, 1951 Tel Aviv Art Museum

1961 The Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem
1981 The Hendlers of Hendler, Tel Aviv Art Museum
2012 Love Story, Hamidrasha Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (Curator: Boaz Arad)

Selected Group Exibitions

1932 General Exhibition of Eretz-Israeli Artists, Tel Aviv Art Museum

1934 Modern Artists, Tel Aviv Museum Pavilion,
The Portrait in Eretz Israel, The Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem.

1936 Eleven Artists, Tel Aviv Art Museum

1940 Group Exhibition with Zaritsky, Paldi and Kastel, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1950s Annual Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Art Museum

1953 Painting and Sculpture in Israel, An Exhibition arranged to Tel Aviv Art Museum\'s 20th Anniversary
1958 Ten Years of Israeli Painting, Tel Aviv Art Museum
Israel 1948-1958: Watercolors, Drawings, Graphics, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
1959 General Exhibition, 50th Anniversary of the City of Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1969 Group Exhibition of Watercolors \'\'1\'\', Artist Pavillion, Tel-Aviv

1971 Expressionism in Eretz Israel in the 30s and its ties with the Ecole de Paris, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
1979 The Kadishman Connection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Tel-Aviv, A Small Metropolin, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1986 There Are No Bad Animals: Animals as Motif in Works of Art, Man and the Living World Museum, Ramat Gan
1996 Artists Messengers of Peace, Jerusalem Artists\' House
1999 Vision of Light: A Century of Watercolor in Israel, The Israel Museum
2000 Group Exhibition, Hamishkan Leomanut, Beth Meirov, Holon
2008 Eretz Eretz (Land Land), Tal Gallery, Kfar Vradim
Near and Apparent, Connections and Contexts, A Selection from the Benno Kalev Collection, Open Museum, Tefen
The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Museum of Art, Ein Harod
2009 Van Gogh in Tel Aviv: Israeli Artists in Dialogue with Van Gogh, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv
2012 King David and I, Artists House, Tel Aviv
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