Yehezkel Streichman Sold at Auction Prices

Painter, b. 1906 - d. 1993

Yehezkel Streichman (Hebrew: 1906 – January 12, 1993) was an Israeli painter. He is considered a pioneer of Israeli modernist painting.[4] Among the awards that he won were the Dizengoff Prize and the Israel Prize.

Streichman studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design with Arie Aroch in 1924–27. He then completed his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts (1927) and in Florence at the Academy of Art (1928–31). He taught painting throughout his life; in elementary and high schools in 1936, at Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov in 1941, and at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv in 1944 and from 1954–79.