Israeli–American painter (born 1951)
Aharon Gluska (born 1951) is an Israeli –American painter.
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 , IsraelIsrael Museum , Jerusalem , IsraelYad Vashem , Jerusalem, IsraelJewish Museum , New York City , New YorkBrooklyn Museum , Brooklyn , New York[ 3] Albright–Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, New York Cornell University Museum, Ithaca, New York [clarification needed 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 ^ "Artists of the Holocaust Awarded Zussman Prize" , Israel Faxx , December 16, 1996, archived from the original ^ "Aharon Gluska" . www.brooklynmuseum.org . Retrieved 2022-08-15 .
External links
International National Artists
