Avni Institute of Art and Design is an Israeli
art school
An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art – especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. Art schools can offer elementary, secondary, post-seco ...
located in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
.
History
The Studia school (later Avni Institute) was established in 1936 by a group of Jewish artists. Among the founders was
Aharon Avni, who became the school's first director. After Avni's death the school was renamed in his memory.
The school offers degrees in art and design and architecture. It also runs a Bachelor of Arts program in collaboration with the
Open University of Israel
The Open University of Israel ( he, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (CH ...
.
The Avni Institute is located in a complex of buildings on Eilat Street in South Tel Aviv. The buildings are named after the school's leading teachers. On the premises is a large gallery space where students can exhibit their works.
Notable faculty and alumni
Faculty
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Tuvia Beeri
Tuvia Beeri ( he, טוביה בארי, August 29, 1929 Czechoslovakia – May 2022) was a Czech-Israeli painter.
Beeri immigrated to Israel in 1948. He studied in 1957 at the Oranim Art Institute in Qiryat Tivon, with Marcel Janco and Yaako ...
* Bianca Eshel Gershuni (also an alum)
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Pinchas Cohen Gan
Pinchas Cohen Gan ( he, פנחס כהן גן) (born November 3, 1942) is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist. He was awarded the Sandberg Prize (1979), the Culture and Sport Ministry's prize for his life's work (2005), and the Israel Prize ...
* Jan Rauchwerger (also an alum)
* Moshe Sternschuss
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Yehezkel Streichman
Yehezkel Streichman ( he, יחזקאל שטרייכמן, 1906 – January 12, 1993) was an Israeli painter. He is considered a pioneer of Israeli modernist painting. Among the awards that he won were the Dizengoff Prize and the Israel Prize.
Bi ...
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Avigdor Stematsky
Avigdor Stematsky (1908–1989) was a Russian Empire-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.
Biography
Stematsky was born in 1908 in Odessa. He joined the Massad group in Tel Aviv. In 1929, he went to P ...
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Yigal Tumarkin
Igael Tumarkin (Hebrew: יגאל תומרקין; 23 October 1933 – 12 August 2021) was an Israeli painter and sculptor.
Biography
Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Igael Tumarkin) was born in 1933 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. His fa ...
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Zvi Lachman
Alumni
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Benni Efrat
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Daniel Enkaoua
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Gideon Gechtman
Gideon Gechtman (1942 – November 27, 2008) was an Israeli artist and sculptor. His art is most noted for holding a dialogue with death, often in relation with his own biography.
Biography
Gideon Gechtman was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He moved ...
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Moshe Gershuni
Moshe Gershuni (11 September 1936 – 22 January 2017) was an Israelis, Israeli painter and sculptor. In his works, particularly in his paintings from the 1980s, he expressed a position different from the norm, commemorating The Holocaust in Is ...
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Moses Hacmon
Moses Hacmon (born October 29, 1977) is an Israeli photographer.
Biography
Moshe (Moses) Hacmon was born in Tel Aviv. He studied cinematography and fine art at the Avni Institute of Art and Design and attended the Technion – Israel Institu ...
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Zvi Hecker
Zvi Hecker ( he, צבי הקר; born 31 May 1931) is a Polish-born Israeli architect. His work is known for its emphasis on geometry and asymmetry.
Biography
Zvi Hecker was born as Tadeusz Hecker in Kraków, Poland. He grew up in Poland and Sa ...
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Menashe Kadishman
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Ram Karmi
Ram Karmi ( he, רם כרמי; 1931 – 11 April 2013) was an Israeli architect. He was head of the Tel Aviv-based Ram Karmi Architects company, and is known for his Brutalist architecture, Brutalist style.
Biography
Ram Karmi was born in Jerusale ...
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David Leviathan
David Leviathan (born 6 August 1950) is an Israeli painter, sculptor, and poet.
Biography
David Leviathan was born and grew up in Kibbutz Givat Brenner in Israel. Right after completing his military service, in the year 1972, he attended the A ...
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Ofer Lellouche
Ofer Lellouche ( he, עופר ללוש, born 19 April 1947 in Tunis) is an Israeli painter, sculptor, etcher and video artist.
Biography
Lellouche was born in Tunisia in 1947. He studied mathematics and physics in Paris at Saint Louis College. In ...
* Isaac Maimon
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Avi Schwartz
Avi Schwartz (born 1938) is an Israeli painter.
Biography
Childhood and adolescence
Avi Schwartz was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1938. His family was in the diamond business.
Early in life he absorbed artistic values at home, where the wall ...
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Siona Shimshi
Siona Shimshi (also "Ziona"; he, ציונה שמשי; July 14, 1939 – October 16, 2018) was an Israeli painter, sculptress, ceramist, and textile designer.
Early life
Shimshi was born in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka (Kuklanski) and Avraham Shimshi, ...
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Itzchak Tarkay
Itzchak Tarkay ( he, יצחק טרקאי; 1935 – June 3, 2012) was an Israeli painter and graphic artist. He is used trade dress to protect his style from being emulated via ''Romm Art Creations Ltd. v. Simcha International, Inc.''. A case that ...
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Yona Wallach
Yona Wallach ( he, יונה וולך; June 10, 1944 – September 26, 1985) was an Israeli poet. Her surname also appears as Volach. She is considered a revolutionary Israeli Feminism, feminist and Postmodernism, post-modernist.
Wallach was a pr ...
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Boaz Vaadia
Boaz Vaadia (November 13, 1951 – February 25, 2017) was an Israeli–American artist and sculptor who worked primarily in stone and subsequently by casting in bronze. Based in New York City since 1975, his studio is located in Brooklyn. The po ...
* Edo Rosenberg
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Idit Aharon
See also
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Visual arts in Israel
Visual arts in Israel refers to plastic art created first in the region of Palestine, from the later part of the 19th century until 1948 and subsequently in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories by Israeli artists. Visual art in Israel ...
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Education in Israel
The education system in Israel consists of three tiers: primary education (grades 1–6, approximately ages 6–12), middle school (grades 7–9, approximately ages 12–15) and high school (grades 10–12, approximately ages 15–19). Compulsory ...
References
External links
Avni homepage
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Art schools in Israel
Universities and colleges in Tel Aviv