Yehoshua Front (Polish / Israeli b.1946)

"Tel-aviv," oil on canvas, 27 x 24, signed. Yehoshua Front immigrated to Israel from Poland in 1957. He graduated Vitzo arts department where he studied under Prof. Yosef Swartzman, a painter of the German school. He trained with several important artists, Avigdor Stimatzky and Moshe Rozentalis, and held many solo exhibitions in galleries across Israel. His auto-portrait exhibition curated by the late Adam Baruch at the museum of Israeli art in Ramat-Gan. His work was published on book covers by "Shoken" and “ACHSHAV” publications. Aside from the Tel Aviv subject matter, his affiliation and great love for the city of Jerusalem brought a series of paintings and drawings entitled “the road to Jerusalem”. (Artist Web Site)