Michael Kovner, an Israeli, was born in 1948
Michael Kovner was born in 1948 in Kibbutz Ramat HaHoresh. His father was the poet and underground fighter in the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto – Abba Kovner. Already as a child he began to engage in art. In his youth he studied art with Yochanan Simon and at the Avni Institute. He did his military service in the General Staff Reconnaissance Regiment. After his military service he went to study art in New York, USA. There, he studied with the painter Philip Gaston, among others. In 1975 he returned to Israel and settled in Jerusalem.
Most of Kovner’s works are in the medium of painting. His works from the 1980s dealt with depictions of local society and culture, using paintings of the desert landscape, descriptions of residential buildings and more. Since the 1990s he has been mainly engaged in landscape painting.
Studies
1965-1963 Approximate painting, by Yochanan Simon, Gan Shmuel
1967-1965 The Avni Institute of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1975-1972 New York Studio School, New York, USA
1972-1975 New York Studio School, with Philip Guston, Mercedes Matter and Stevan Sloman
In 1978 he began working with the Bineth Gallery in Tel Aviv, where he exhibited most of his solo exhibitions (about 15). He has also exhibited solo exhibitions at the Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod and the University Gallery in Be’er Sheva. His paintings were exhibited in group exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the Haifa Museum of Art and the Jewish Museum of New York
In 1981, the exhibition featured a different spirit, curated by Sarah Breitberg-Semel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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