Aharon Gluska
Aharon Gluska (born 1951) is an Israeli–American painter.
Aharon Gluska | |
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| Born | 1951 Hadera, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Israel |
| Known for | Painting |
| Website | www |
Early life
Gluska was born in 1951 in Hadera, Israel. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv.
Grants
Gluska received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Awards
Gluska was one of two winners of the 1996 Zussman Prize for artists dealing with the Holocaust, from the Yad Vashem museum, for his paintings of prisoners at Auschwitz based on photographs of them taken by their Nazi guards.[1][2]
Public collections
Gluska's art is displayed in the following locations:
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Jewish Museum, New York City, New York
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York[3]
- Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- Cornell University Museum, Ithaca, New York
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
- Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
References
- "Gluska, Kupferman win Yad Vashem art prizes", Jerusalem Post, November 28, 1996, archived from the original on April 9, 2016
- "Artists of the Holocaust Awarded Zussman Prize", Israel Faxx, December 16, 1996, archived from the original on April 9, 2016
- "Aharon Gluska". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
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