2 Drawings - Pen on paper, Meir Ben Uri, signed.

2 Drawings - Pen on paper, Meir Ben Uri, signed.
2 Drawings - Pen on paper, one of the works signed.

Sizes: 15X21 cm, / 15X23.5 cm.

Conditions; Generally Very Good , slightly creased, age stains.

Meir Ben-Uri (1983) was an Israeli architect, director, painter, illustrator, musician, conductor and composer. In 1932 he toured the Land of Israel Where he visited Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and recorded his impressions in a notebook that accompanied the paintings, and after graduating he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1934 and changed his family name to Ben-Uri, after Bezalel ben Uri. Lived in the city of Haifa, worked as an architect and became a student and assistant to Hermann Struck.

In 1942 he married Yehudit, the daughter of Dr. Peretz Bernstein, one of the leaders of general Zionism and later a minister and member of the Knesset. At first he lived with his wife in Sde Eliyahu and moved to Kiryat Shmuel in the Krayot north of Haifa in 1966. He worked for a time in Jerusalem for the KKL-JNF Youth Department, directing plays, creating cartoons, composing songs and paintings, and returning to Haifa.

In 1968, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the State of Israel, Bar-Ilan University presented an exhibition of 38 paintings that symbolize the path of the people of Israel since the Exodus from Egypt, under the title "Bring them and establish them" .

On the second floor of his home in Kiryat Shmuel, he opened the Museum of Religious Art in 1840 (also known as the Ben Uri Museum), where he presented his many works and works in the various fields he created.

On the wall of his home in Kiryat Shmuel, he wrote the verse, "Good taste and knowledge, teach me that I have believed in your commandments" (Tehillim, Psalm 119), which served as a motto for his creation, expressing the belief that good taste can be taught and should be imparted not only to individuals but also to the entire public And observance of mitzvot.