Klepner frank (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Fine condition dust jacket, fine condition black cloth covered hardboards, with silver title on spine, no inscriptions, clean text, tight binding, 160pp. Book is in immaculate unread condition. Yosl Bergner, a Jewish immigrant to Australia before World War II, brought a European influence to the Australian art scene with his expressionistic realism, influencing the likes of Tucker, Boyd and Counihan. In 1950 Bergner happily settled in Israel and remained a highly respected artist. This book is a serious analysis of Bergner's influence and his understanding of the plight of the oppressed. It is well illustrated.…

Soft Cover. Zustand: F-. First Edition. Oblong 4to. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed); pp. 56, with illustrations. A near fine copy. Flatsigned by Louis Kahan. Signed by the Artist.

With a preface by Bernard Smith. Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated. A fine copy, as new. 'The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950. Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner's Australian years and provides well-researched and previously unpublished insights into the artist's principal themes. Bergner first exhibited with Arthur Boyd and Noel Counihan in Melbourne in 1939 and from then he developed an increasingly social-realist approach to painting. Today, he is one of Israel's leading painters, but he continues to visit and exhibit works in Australia.' - the publisher Yosl Bergner passed away in 2017 at the age of 96.…