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Nationality
  
Israeli

Known for
  
Painter


Name
  
Aharon Gluska


Born
  
1951
Hadera, Israel

Education
  
Academie des Beaux-Arts

Aharon Gluska


Aharon Gluska (born 1951) is an Israeli–American painter.

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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.

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
  • Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  • Cornell University Museum, Ithaca, New York
  • Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

    • References

    Aharon Gluska Wikipedia
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