Yehuda Wallersteiner (1915-2004)
Signed - watercolor on paper - 30X26 cm.

Signed - watercolor on paper - 30X26 cm.

Yehuda Wallersteiner (1915-2004) was an Israeli artist, born in Germany. Immigrated to Israel in 1934.

He studied painting with the painter Jacob Steinhardt, and also completed a number of courses in Italy, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, England and Spain. Was the founder of the artists' village of Ein Hod, lived and worked in it until his death.

Wallersteiner's works have been exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum, among others, and he has exhibited his work in a number of exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

Yehuda Wallersteiner is a figurative painter in the traditional sense of the term. He's not trying

To imitate nature exactly - no painter did, despite the various theories that were accepted

At different times - but to give the look of his eyes while emphasizing a certain aspect. Highlighting an aspect Messages in external repetition, if it is conscious, er at least consistent and clear, may equate to the drawing of A figurative painter of the type mentioned in Personal Throat. Not so with Rellersteiner. The highlighted aspect is not a layer Structural, theoretical or emotional-designer, but an aesthetic aspect in the most general sense. Wallersteiner is From the painters who see a beautiful view and are willing to share their impression with the viewer, and to that end they are Recreate the landscape in the belief that the painting will also recreate the feeling evoked by the real landscape. within To paint the landscape, Wallersteiner does not feel in the landscape any special model or pattern that stands out to his eyes and is preferable.

On the rest. Had he lived a hundred years ago, he would have created a plausible academic landscape, and then the visual pattern would have come to life Scale for the painting structure. Today, when even the academic painter is trying to highlight and emphasize something Beyond the visual, and when even the most figurative painter is unwilling to describe in meticulous grammar every detail From the visual reality, a scale-like painter of Wallersteiner is left who helps and tells him what To draw and what not to draw from external reality. This is, it turns out, the reason Schullersteiner chose, Probably in an unconscious way, as an aspect that deserves to be emphasized, the eclectic and quite ordinary concept Of aesthetics, as it is seen not in the landscape but in the paintings of other painters.

From "Exhibitions in Tel Aviv" Haaretz / 06/03/64 Solo Exhibition "Chamrinsky" Gallery / Tel Aviv

This item is from the estate of a restaurant which operated in the artists' village of Ein Hod on the slopes of Mount Carmel.

The restaurant operated in the 1970s and was the focus of every artist's pilgrimage

In the estate collection you can find items by Marcel Janko, Shmuel Schlesinger, Moshe Mukdai, Ovadia alkara Ben- Zion Magal, Ora Lahav Chaaltiel, Prof. Joseph Chaaltiel, Genia Berger, Avri Ohana, Miriam Ruth Sarnoff, Shmuel & Ealle Raayoni, Avinoam Kosovsky, Yaakov Gotterman.

Like the artists of the period, famous cultural figures visited Ein Hod, including Gila Almagor, Dan Kanner, Dan Ben-Amotz, Moni Moshonov, Shlomo Braba.

The artists' village of Ein Hod is located next to the old road from Tel Aviv to Haifa, on a hill overlooking the shores of Atlit and the Crusader fortress. The village was founded in 1953, about five years after the establishment of the state of Israel, following an idea conceived by a group of revolutionary artists led by Marcel Janko: to establish the first artist village in Israel that would provide a supportive, creative and fertile environment for its residents.

The first decades were difficult for the founders, but perseverance, ideals and vision led to the establishment of Ein Hod as the only artist village in Israel - and among the few in the world - whose population is based on artists in all fields of art: from plastic art to music, literature and theater.