Yosl Bergner

1920 - 2017
Yosl Bergner is one of Israel's most valued and important artists. Bergner was born Joseph Vladimir in Vienna, and grew up in a house full of culture and matters of the spirit: his father was a poet who among other things translated some of Franz Kafka's books into Yiddish. His mother was a singer, his uncle Moshe, one of the people who influenced him most was a painter. In general, Yosl remembers a household that was constantly filled with culture and matters of the spirit, whether in creation or in a dialog about it. At the age of 17 he immigrated to Australia with his sister, where he studied at the Melbourne Academy of the Arts and continued to surround himself with cultural people, especially one who became his closest friend for decades to come: the poet Yosl Birstein. Yosl Bergner's wife, Audrey, is a painter. And after the two immigrated to Israel together in 1950 their home was always a meeting place for intellectuals of sorts - first in Safed, and a few years later on Bilu Street in central Tel Aviv. After immigrating to Israel, he changed his first name to Yosl and soon became one of the busiest and most admired artists in Israel. His paintings documented the different walks of life in Israel's early days, mainly through motifs that were considered exilic. . Over the years, the public grasp of his paintings changed as those exilic motifs ostensibly became an inseparable part of Israeli lives, and Bergner's style changed as well. his paintings became brighter, more colorful, and to a certain extent happier, though one of the main characteristics of his work over the years was the delicate fusion between sadness and joy. In addition to his expressive paintings, Yosl Bergner was also known to illustrate books, including many classics, he was even known to be a set designer - especially for plays of the late Nissim Aloni (by the way, Aloni wrote The Bride and the Butterfly Hunter after being inspired by a series of famous paintings Bergner painted, it included The Three Girls and the Butterfly and The Butterfly Eaters). Another prominent motif in Bergner's work is the kitchen grader, which appears in many paintings and was greatly anthropomorphized by the artist. Other kitchen utensils also appear in of Yosl Bergner's paintings. His explanation for it is that during his childhood, in the absence of "ordinary" toys, he would play with kitchen utensils. In many interviews Bergner defines himself as a professional and not as an artist, although there is no doubt that he is one of the greatest painters in the history of Israel, evidence to that is the Israel Prize for Arts he received in 1980.

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Yosl Bergner
Aura of Birds, Oil on canvas, 70x100…

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4800

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Yosl Bergner
Peeping House, oil on canvas, 80x60 cm.…

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3000

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Yosl Bergner
Birds and Bottles, oil on canvas, 100x70…

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$4,000 - $6,000

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Yosl Bergner
Flower Vase, oil on canvas, 50x40 cm.…

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2200

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Yosl Bergner
Angel, bronze, height 7 cm. accompanied by…

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260

Lot : 310

Yosl Bergner
The Angel and Utensils, Oil on paper…

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1400

Lot : 311

Yosl Bergner
Windows of Jaffa, Gouache on paper, 32X41…

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850

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Yosl Bergner
Lamp, 1973, Oil on canvas, 49x39 cm.…

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2800

Lot : 517

Yosl Bergner
Klezmer, Oil on canvas, 40X30 cm. Signed.…

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$3,000 - $5,000

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Yosl Bergner
The Parable, Oil on canvas, 50x60 cm.…

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8000

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Yosl Bergner
Green Beach, Oil on canvas, 46X65 cm.…

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4200

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Yosl Bergner
Klezmer, Oil on canvas, 40x50 cm. Signed.…

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3800

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Yosl Bergner
Jewish Wedding, Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm.…

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14500

Lot : 59

Yosl Bergner
Purimspiel, Oil on canvas, 116X88 cm. Signed.…

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15000

Lot : 60

Yosl Bergner
Ship of Fools, 1964,Oil on canvas, 81X116…

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8000

Lot : 72

Yosl Bergner
The Samurais, 1976, Oil on canvas, 38X46…

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3600

Lot : 74

Yosl Bergner
Journey, 2002, Oil on canvas, 65X81 cm.…

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$5,000 - $8,000

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Yosl Bergner
4 Graters, oil on cardboard, 41x58 cm.…

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2000

Lot : 66

Yosl Bergner
Tools, mixed technique on paper laid on…

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280

Lot : 67

Yosl Bergner
Utensils, pencil on paper, 30X48 cm. signed.

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130

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Yosl Bergner
Flowers, oil on canvas, 30x40 cm. Signed.…

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1800

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Yosl Bergner
The King, 1962, gouache and oil on…

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700

Lot : 49

Yosl Bergner
Toys, watercolor and panda on paper, 31x45…

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280

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Yosl Bergner
Bass player, oil on canvas, 30X25 cm.…

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1600

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Yosl Bergner
Girl with a doll, oil on canvas,…

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2600

Lot : 59

Yosl Bergner
Lot of 3 drawings: Figures, marker on…

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380

Lot : 384

Yosl Bergner
Girl with a Tear, oil on canvas,…

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3000

Lot : 385

Yosl Bergner
Boy, oil on canvas, 40X30 cm. Signed.

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2800

Lot : 426

Yosl Bergner
Lantern, oil on canvas, 61X46 cm. Signed.

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2800

Lot : 427

Yosl Bergner
Still Life with a Doll, oil on…

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3000

Lot : 432

Yosl Bergner
Purple Flowers, oil on canvas, 40X30 cm.…

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2800

Lot : 532

Yosl Bergner
Klezmer, oil on canvas, 50X40 cm. Signed.

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2500

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Yosl Bergner
Chairs at Sea, 1967, Oil on wood,…

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3400

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Yosl Bergner
The View from The Top, 1970, Oil…

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15000

Lot : 43

Yosl Bergner
The King’s Clothes According to Plays by…

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3600

Lot : 44

Yosl Bergner
The Kings of Nissim Aloni, Oil on…

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4600

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