Avigdor Stematsky

Avigdor Stematsky studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium. The field of work recorded is painting. Employment is recorded with Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Work by Avigdor Stematsky is recorded in the collections of Bar-David Museum of Art and Judaica, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art and Israel Museum. Distinctions recorded are Dizengoff Prize and Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize for Israeli Art.

• Name — Avigdor Stematsky אביגדור סטמצקי • Born — 1908 • Birthplace — Odessa, Russian Empire (now Odesa, Ukraine) • Died — 1989 • Citizenship — Israel • Known for — Painting • Training — Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Histadrut Art Studio Académie de la Grande Chaumière Académie Colarossi • Movement — Israeli art

Stematsky was born in 1908 in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Odesa, Ukraine). He studied under Isaac Frenkel Frenel in the Histadrut Art Studio. He joined the Massad group in Tel Aviv. Following the advice of Frenkel, he was among those students of Frenkel who left for Paris to further their studies. He did so in 1929, when he went to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Académie Colarossi. He was one of the founders of the New Horizons group. He held his first solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art at the age of 31. In the constellation of Israel art, Stematsky and Yehezkiel Streichman stand out as a pair. Although each developed his own distinct, individual style, there are many points of affinity between them: a common background as students of Bezalel in the 1920s, a response to the influences of the Jewish School of Paris in the 1930s, and of the "modern" (late cubist) art in the 1940s and fifties, when they were also leading teachers in Tel Aviv.

• Illustration — Etude, 1962 Israel Museum Collection B95.0596 • Illustration — Painting, 1975-76 Israel Museum Collection B78.0004

• 1925–26 – Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, Tel Aviv • 1926–28 – Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, with Arie Aroch, Moshe Castel and others • 1928 – Technion, Haifa, Architecture • 1929 – Yitzhak Frenkel Studio, Tel Aviv • 1930–31 – Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, with Aharon Avni