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Gat, Eliahu, 1919-1987


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    • (naf) Tsefat (Israel)

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    • Gat, Eliyahu, 1919-1987
    • Gulkowitz, Eliyahu, 1919-1987
    • גת, אליהו

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    • found: His Mabaṭ mi-baʻad la-ḥalon, 1979:p. 2 of cover (Eliyahu Gat) p. 3 of cover (Eliahu Gat [in rom.]) p. 6 (b. in Russia in 1919; immig. to Palestine in 1936)
    • found: Bartos, Ron. Eliyahu Gat, 2017:title page (Eliyahu Gat = אליהו גת) page 278, etc. (Eliahu Gat [Gulkowitz] was born in 1919 in Dokshitz, Belarus to Aryeh and Bella. In 1926 the family moved to Wilejka, Poland in the Vilna Governorate where he was influenced by the many Zionist organizations. In 1937 he immigrated to Haifa and studied at the Technion for two years. He lived for a time in Kibbutz Maoz Haim and Kibbutz Nir Haim (now Nir Am), and served in the British Army in the Royal Engineers from 1942 to 1946. In 1945 he enrolled in the Avni Studio, and in 1946 he took advantage of art classes while stationed in Cairo with the British Army. He lved in Tel Aviv and attended The Studia until 1948. During the War of Independence he was drafted into the IDF from 1948 to 1949. In February 1951 The Ten, a group of young artists of which Gat was a member, held their debut exhibition. The group lasted until 1960 when it disbanded. In 1952 he traveled to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Upon his return, he enrolled in the Art Teachers School in Tel Aviv, the first incarnation of HaMidrasha at Beit Berl College, and started teaching art in elementary schools. He painted landscapes of Israel and, in reaction to his discovery that his family in Europe had been murdered in the Holocaust, a series of paintings that expressed his grief. In 1958 he had his first solo exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and in 1960 exhibited at the Jerusalem Artists' House. In 1961 he began to paint pure abstraction using watercolors, and his works were exhibited in a solo show at Tel Aviv Artists House in 1963 and in a new group of artists, Tazpit 1964. In 1964 he held an exhibit at Dugit Gallery and painted in Safed and Holon, taught in the Bat Yam Art institute which he directed from 1964 to 1965, and at HaMidrasha Art Teachers College. Between 1965 and 1972 Gat lived in Holon, had a studio in Bat Yam, summered in Safed, and traveled across Israel constantly. In 1971 Gat purchased a house in Safed's Artists' Quarter and established a residence and atelier. He established a new artists' group called Aclim in 1973. He preferred to paint still lifes, portraits and female nudes along with landscapes of many places in Israel. He suffered ill health although he partially recovered, continued to paint, and held a retrospective exhibition at the Israel Museum in 1984. Gat died in Safed in 1987.)

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    • 1990-02-20: new
    • 2017-06-27: revised

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