Moshe Kupferman (; 1926–2003) was an Israeli artist.

Biography

Moshe Kupferman was born on 12 August 1926 in

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, Poland. In 1941, he was exiled with his family to camps in the Urals and in Germany. Moshe Kupferman's work links recent lyric abstraction to the modernistic. It is the result of a process beginning with free, uncritical expression bordering on personal confession, and continuing with critical painting, in which the artist "erases" his "confession". The final result testifies to the preceding stages, and to the inherent conflicts in his work, between expressive drama and introspection, form and atmosphere, destruction and construction. The contradictions he succeeded in integrating in his work placed Kupferman in the front ranks of Israeli art. Moshe Kupferman died on 20 June 2003 in Israel, in the

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– kibbutz, which he had founded and where he lived and worked as an artist for many years.

Education

* 1973 course by Joseph Zaritsky and

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Awards and prizes

* 1971: Schiff Prize – from the Haifa Municipality * 1972:

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from

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, Jerusalem; * 1991: Haim Gamzou Prize for the Advancement of the Arts, from

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of Art * 1996: Sussman Prize for Paintings of the Shoah,

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, Jerusalem; * 1998: Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts,

; * 2000: Israel Prize for Painting, together with Michael Gross and Micha Bar Am.

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* * * 1926 births 2003 deaths People from Jarosław People from Lwów Voivodeship Israeli Jews Polish emigrants to Israel 20th-century Polish painters Polish male painters Israel Prize in sculpture and painting recipients Sandberg Prize recipients 20th-century Israeli painters {{Israel-artist-stub