In an interview with ‘Arutz Sheva’, the financial strategist and owner of the Levin Art Collection, Ofer Levin Austria, referred to the recent David Reeb affair, in which the artist’s work had been removed from an exhibition at the Ramat Gan Museum, after causing a political turmoil. Levin said: “If you are able to filter […]
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“The Future is the Past – In Search of a Chinese Portrait” exhibition, which was conducted in late 2014 in Austria, by Blue Mountain Contemporary Art (BMCA), presented a rich and nuanced context in which audiences from outside of China could experience the changes that the country has undergone, and is in fact still undergoing,
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Jane (Yana) Schacherl-Hillman (b. 1913), a Jerusalem-based artist was known mainly for her sculptural work. She was born in Vienna, where she attended the Vienna Academy of Arts and Crafts and subsequently studied with Émile-Antoine Bourdelle in Paris, whose influence she blended with that of the German sculptor, Georg Kolbe. In the 1930s she exhibited
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Osias Hofstatter (1905 – 1995) was an unusual figure in the Israeli art world. He was born in Poland and spent many years in Vienna, Austria. fled the Nazis in 1938, and after many trials and tribulations in refugee camps and repeated fleeing, he returned to Vienna, and from there went to Warsaw, Poland. It
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The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), formerly known before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 as the Palestine Orchestra, was founded on 26 December 1936 by the Jewish violinist and musician, Bronislaw Huberman. Huberman (1882 – 1947), a Jewish Polish violinist, convinced 75 Jewish musicians from important orchestras in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and
Österreichische Emigration nach Palästina (“Austrian Emigration to Palestine”) is an ORF III channel documentary by Uli Jürgens sponsored by Ofer Levin. The film tells the story of Austrian Jews who left Austria to Palestine, either voluntarily before 1938 or forcibly afterwards following the Nazi Anschluss. These extraordinary people contributed to the economy, culture, and society
