Moshé Raviv-Vorobeichic, known as Moi Ver, born Moses Vorobeichic (1904–1995) was an Israeli photographer and painter.

Life and work

Moi Ver (Moshe Raviv) was born in 1904 in

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, Lithuania as Moses Vorobeichic. He initially studied painting. In his early twenties he matriculated at the

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, taking courses with

Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented ...

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (; rus, Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, vɐˈsʲilʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐnʲˈdʲinskʲɪj; – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter a ...

, and

Josef Albers Josef Albers (; ; March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born artist and educator. The first living artist to be given a solo show at MoMA and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College ...

, and left from there to attend the Ecole Photo One in Paris. In his book ''Moi Ver: Paris'', he produced

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photomontages. Originally published in 1931 by Editions Jeanne Walter with an introduction by futurist Fernand Léger. In 1932 Raviv was sent by the weekly '' La Vie Parisienne'' to Palestine as photo-reporter. Raviv illustrated many books. Raviv was a founder of the Artists' Colony in Safed. He adopted

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in 1934 and immigrated to what was then known as Palestine. Moshe Raviv-Vorobeichic (as he called himself in Israel) focused more on painting than photography and lived in Safed until his death in 1995.

Education

* Graduated from the first Hebrew Gymnasium in the Diaspora * Art and architecture, Vilnius University * 1928

, Dessau,

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with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Josef Albers * 1930 Ecole Photo One,

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, photography

References

External links

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Special Collection of Posters
at the Palestine Poster Project Archives. 1904 births 1995 deaths Bauhaus alumni Israeli photographers Photographers from Vilnius 20th-century Israeli painters Early photographers in Palestine Lithuanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine {{Israel-artist-stub