Animals

EDWIN SALOMON
Edwin Salomon was born in Oona Mures, a town in the region of Transilvania, Romania, in 1935. In 1948 he moved to Cluj, the capital of Transilvania.

He grew up there and after graduating from the local high-school in 1951, he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts named after Ion Andreescu in Cluj. In the fourth year of his studies, the National Museum of Bucharest bought three of his paintings. Two years later, in 1957, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Sculptors Association as a member , an act which symbolized his adaptation to the Israeli art world.

In 1965, Salomon went to Paris for additional artistic training at the Sorbonne. In the same year, he was awarded the Nordau Prize. Later, he won more prizes: Tel-Aviv’s Bible Museum award for the year 1983 and a honorary Prize awarded by the Holon Municipality in the form of 18 trees planted in his name in 1985.

He teaches art at a variety of Institutions. Among them the Art Institute of Bat-Yam, the Tel-Aviv Musuem and the Teachers College in Ramat Hasharon, as well as serving as Art Director for the Wizo-France Vocational high-school.

Edwin Salomon’s paintings appear in numerous private collections in Israel, the U.S.A. Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Romania, Sweden, Hungary, as well as in public collections such as the National Museum of Bucharest, the Cluj Museum, the Herzelia Museum and the Great Synagogue of Washington DC.

EDWIN SALOMON
Edwin Salomon was born in Oona Mures, a town in the region of Transilvania, Romania, in 1935. In 1948 he moved to Cluj, the capital of Transilvania.

He grew up there and after graduating from the local high-school in 1951, he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts named after Ion Andreescu in Cluj. In the fourth year of his studies, the National Museum of Bucharest bought three of his paintings. Two years later, in 1957, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Sculptors Association as a member , an act which symbolized his adaptation to the Israeli art world.

In 1965, Salomon went to Paris for additional artistic training at the Sorbonne. In the same year, he was awarded the Nordau Prize. Later, he won more prizes: Tel-Aviv’s Bible Museum award for the year 1983 and a honorary Prize awarded by the Holon Municipality in the form of 18 trees planted in his name in 1985.

He teaches art at a variety of Institutions. Among them the Art Institute of Bat-Yam, the Tel-Aviv Musuem and the Teachers College in Ramat Hasharon, as well as serving as Art Director for the Wizo-France Vocational high-school.

Edwin Salomon’s paintings appear in numerous private collections in Israel, the U.S.A. Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Romania, Sweden, Hungary, as well as in public collections such as the National Museum of Bucharest, the Cluj Museum, the Herzelia Museum and the Great Synagogue of Washington DC.

The theme of the sacrificial ram, caught in a thicket is a familiar one in Weil’s works. Combining the dove of hope with the ram of sacrifice, the artist yields a visual statement of tenderness and strength. The ram’s horns are used as the central structural focus for the work, while between them Weil has combined aleph, yud and lamed (ayil, meaning ram) to denote its importance.

Shraga Weil was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1918 to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants. His father, a building engineer, who was an amateur painter, sent him to study with a local sculptor and then to the Prague School of Art.

He produced his first graphic works during World War II, part of which he spent as a prisoner. After the war, Weil sailed for Israel on an illegal immigrant ship, eventually arriving in the new country in 1947 and becoming a member of Kibbutz Haogen, where he has been living ever since.

In 1954 Weil spent some time studying murals and graphic techniques at the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris and Ravenna mosaics with Prof. Severinl.

Shraga Weil’s works have been exhibited in the United States, South America, Canada, Australia, France, the USSR, Switzerland, and in the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, in Lugano. In 1959, Weil was awarded Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Art Prize