MOSHE MOKADY 1902-1975 Painter Contact: Nina Mokady Hayon - Director of the Mokady Foundation & the Mokady Estate. Email: ronahayon@bezeqint.net Tel: +972.97603455, +972.52.3426863 Moshe Mokady (ne Brandstatter) was born on June 5th, 1902 in Tarnow, Galicia. Between 1914 and 1920, Mokady lived in Vienna and Zurich and studied painting with Lazar Krestin. He also studied music and the piano. In 1920 the family migrated to Eretz-Israel and settled initially in Haifa. In 1922-1923 Mokady studied at the Art Academy in Vienna. From 1927-1933 lived and worked in Paris, returned to live in Jerusalem and then in Tel-Aviv. Between 1946 and 1965 he traveled frequently to Europe and the U.S.A., visiting New York for the first time in 1947. Mokady was the first Director of the Art Department at the Ministry of Education and Culture (1950-1952) and the first Director of the Avni Institute of Painting and Sculpture in Tel-Aviv (1952-1965). Between 1934 and 1958 Mokady stage designed for the Eretz-Israeli theatre numerous productions for the Cameri, Ohel and Habimah theatres. Boats, late 1950's oil and charcoal on paper Ein Karem Landsacape, 1936 oil on paper mounted on canvas Dancer, 1954 oil and charcoal on paper The painter beside the Easel late 1960's, oil on paper mounted on canvas Encounter with the Desert, 1958, oil on canvas Abstract, 1961-62, oil on canvas Abstract, oil on canvas, 1964 Abstract, oil on canvas, 1972-73 From 1953, Mokady was active in the founding of the first Israeli artists village in Ein Hod. Moved to live there permanently in 1965 and died in September 1975 in Ein Hod after a short illness. Mokady received various national and international prizes, including the Dizengoff prizes in 1937, 1942, 1951. Numerous solo exhibitions have been held in Israel, Paris, New York, Geneva. The last major retrospective was in 1999 at the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. Numerous Group Exhibitions were held, among them in Israel, at the Venice Biennale (1952,1958), World Fair in New York, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Sao Paulo, Montevideo, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Oslo, Gotesburg, Helsinki, Bern, Athens, Washington, D.C. Mokady's paintings are to be found in numerous museums in Israel and abroad (including Paris, New York, Berkeley, Chicago, Cairo), as well as in private and public collections in Israel, Europe, North and South America. A two-volume set of books in English and in Hebrew was published in 1999 by the Mokady Foundation and the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, and is available for purchase. << back to the Ein Hod Artists page