Yosl Bergner b. 13 October 1920

  • Artist (Painter)
20th century Melbourne painter. Contemporary of Boyd and Perceval and active member of Contemporary Art Society with Noel Counihan and Vic O'Connor. Bergner's paintings were among the 1st to address the specific plight of Indigenous Australians and later work took inspiration from the works of German writer Franz. In Tel Aviv, a member of a circle of artists centred in the popular Cafe Kassit, where he painted a large mural.
Tags: social conscience, Communist, refugee
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Name
Yosl Bergner
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Tags:
social conscience
Communist
refugee
Birth date
13 October 1920
Birth place
Vienna, Austria
Death date
18 January 2017
Death place
Tel Aviv, Israel
Burial place
Tel Aviv, Israel
Active Period
  • c.1937 - c.1975
Arrival
  • 1937
Residence
  • 1920 - c.1920 Vienna, Austria
  • c.1920 - 1937 Warsaw, Poland
  • c.1937 - c.1948 Melbourne, VIC
  • c.1948 - c.1950 Paris, France
  • c.1950 New York, USA
  • c.1950 - 2017 Tel Aviv, Israel
Training
  • Art, 1937 - c.1940 National Gallery School, Melbourne, Vic.
Cultural Heritage
  • Jewish
Languages
  • English
  • Yiddish
  • Hebrew
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

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References [<ExternalResource: Mellick, Ross (2001), 'Yosl Bergner - A Retrospective: Melbourne, Kafka and disjunctions of the human heart', Art and Australia, 38/4, pp 530-533.>, <ExternalResource: Rubin, Carmela (2000), 'Yosl Bergner: A Retrospective', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, April-June, exhibition catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: David Langsam "YOSL BERGNER 1920-2017">, <ExternalResource: Shachar M. Pinsker. A Rich Brew. How Cafes created modern Jewish Culture, NYU Press, 2018, pp.293-302. [Bergner mural illustration] Extensive summary of role of Cafe Kassit, Tel Aviv in the artists' community where Bergner was an important figure. Pinsker says "Bergner's paintings were first seen by Israeli critics as too "diasporic" and too "literary".(p.295) Anecdote on mural origin included (illustrated in b/w).>] [<ExternalResource: Mellick, Ross (2001), 'Yosl Bergner - A Retrospective: Melbourne, Kafka and disjunctions of the human heart', Art and Australia, 38/4, pp 530-533.>, <ExternalResource: Rubin, Carmela (2000), 'Yosl Bergner: A Retrospective', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, April-June, exhibition catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: David Langsam "YOSL BERGNER 1920-2017">]