Jossi Stern “Israeli Landscape” Color Lithograph, Pencil Signed, Framed and Matted

Description

“Israeli Landscape” color lithograph by Jossi Stern. Pencil signed bottom left. Framed and matted. Excellent condition. From the home of a prominent Michigan collector. Please see photos for additional details.

Dimensions Framed: 22″ wide by 28.5″ high
Dimensions Work: 17″ wide by 23″ high

About Jossi Stern (aka Yosi or Yossi Stern). Born in 1923 in a small village in northern Hungary, Jossi Stern became a well-known Jerusalem painter. At the young age of 17, he traveled to Israel alone on an illegal immigrant ship named Sakarya, and while onboard, he befriended two wealthy immigrants. When they arrived in Palestine, the wealthy immigrants took the budding artist under their wing and financed his studies at the Bezalel Art Academy.

Stern began to be recognized as a painter during the last years of the 1948 League of Nations Palestinian Mandate. He worked as a graphic editor and illustrator of the Hagana’s official paper.

After the founding of the State of Israel, he worked as an illustrator for various newspapers, including Yediot Ahronot, Davar, and others. Stern dealt mainly with the scenery around Jerusalem, the city that was his home from the time he came to Palestine, until the end of his life in 1992.

Evident in his work, Stern’s Jerusalem was a turbulent city brimming with life and his unique style became his trademark. He depicted the unsung heroes of the Jerusalem drama – its peddlers and beggars, roaming the social outskirts of the city that has always been torn between the sacred and the profane, between the specter of divinity and the mire of the earth.