Bidspirit auction | Yehuda Bar Yoshaphat (1922-1993) -

Yehuda Bar Yoshaphat (1922-1993) - studied painting and sculpture at the Budapest Academy with the Hungarian artist Kisfaludi, Strobl Sigmund. During the Holocaust he was trapped between forced labor camps, escaped several times and miraculously survived after being sentenced to death. From 1945-7 he lived in Italy, where he held his first two solo exhibitions. In November 1947 he immigrated to Israel. Between the years 1955-1983 he held 7 solo exhibitions in sculpture and painting throughout Israel. In March 1982, 29 of his works were decorated as a backdrop to the performance of the opera ”Emperor of Atlantis”, Written in the Theresienstadt ghetto and exhibited in the Hall of Culture in Tel Aviv. He was one of the founders of the Society of Painters and Sculptors in Beersheba and the South.