Paul Kor

Paul Kornowski was born in Paris, to a non-observant Jewish family who had emigrated from Poland. His father, Yitzhak, a tailor by trade, was murdered in the Holocaust in Auschwitz (7 July 1942), and the young Paul was smuggled to Geneva, Switzerland, together with his brother Henri (1929 -1980), where he lived as a refugee in a Jewish orphanage (OSE) until the end of the war. During that time he studied art and graphics at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, and subsequently at the École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. At the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war he immigrated to Israel and joined the IDF as a volunteer in MAHAL (Foreign Volunteers). After his marriage to Pnina Tovbin, whom he met while in the IDF, he remained in Israel. Paul Kor retained his family name Kornowski but used Kor to sign his works. In 2001, Kor died of lung cancer, at the age of 75. He was buried in the Kiryat Sha'ul Cemetery in Tel Aviv. He is survived by his wife Pnina and his two sons. His granddaughter is Israeli actress Lihi Kornowski. In June 2008, a street was named after him in Tel Aviv, the city in which he worked and created for most of his life.

section Kor was awarded first prize - the "Golden Siren" sculpture - for his poster for the promotion of tourism at the Fourth International Tourism Posters Competition in 1966, in Milan, Italy. In addition to his constant activity as an artist in Israel and the world, Kor worked for many years in illustration and graphic design. He designed some of the banknotes and stamps of the State of Israel, and also designed and produced booklets and posters in Israel and in France. At the beginning of the 1970s, Kor painted and designed the last series of the Israeli pound banknotes, which was the basis for the first series of Israeli shekel banknotes. The notes he designed depict portraits of Henrietta Szold (IL5), Moshe Montefiore (IL10), Chaim Weizmann (IL50) and Herzl (IL100). He was always searching for his identity and combined two worlds: the realistic one and the world of dreams. His paintings were exhibited in Paris, Oslo and London. In Israel, his works were shown at Gallery Rosenfeld, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Petach Tikvah Museum of Art, and Yad Layeled. On the tenth anniversary of his death, Kor's oil painting The Cellist was exhibited at the Yad LaYeled Children's Museum at the Ghetto Fighters' House, alongside the children's books he wrote and illustrated. Two of his monotypes dated 1995 are in the Israel Museum’s collection in Jerusalem.

• Illustration — Street sign, Paul Kor Street in Tel Aviv After his death, Paul Kor's family made two animated films based on the books: The Elephant who Wanted to be the Best and Caspion, produced by "Classikaletet". In 2005, a drawing book was found in a basement in Paris full of drawings he had made while he was still a child. In April 2014, HIT - Holon Institute of Technology exhibited the poster Kor designed in 1973 for the 25th anniversary of the State of Israel.

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