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Original Hand-Signed & Numbered Color Litho - $250 (NE Tucson)
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He was active in Leipzig from 1920 to 1933, creating paintings of city life, before facing persecution by National Socialism.
Artist: Abraham Yaskil
Title: Two Shepherds -or- Moses and Aaron
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 5/325; V/CCCXXV [VERY LOW NUMBER]
Framed Size: 22 in. x 29 in.
Litho Size: Approix. 17 x 23 inches
Hand-signed in lower right
Numbered in lower left.
Avraham Yaskil (Jaskiel), painter. Born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1894. Died in Haifa in 1987.
Father of the painters Amos and Zeev Yaskil.
In Germany, he was a backdrop painter and art designer at the Schauspiel Theatre in Leipzig.
In 1934 he immigrated to Israel as an illegal immigrant and settled in Haifa. He served as a painting teacher. Established the ''Circle of Art Enthusiasts'', which later became the Association of Painters and Sculptors in Haifa and the North. In the 1940s, he set up the first museum of plastic art in Neve Shaanan neighborhood in Haifa in the abandoned Histadrut (General Organization of Workers in Israel) building. Opened an Art school in the Museum. Yaskil participated in many exhibitions and died in Haifa in 1987.