His early training in Josef Schwartzmann's studio, which began at just 9 years old, revealed exceptional talent and a family environment likely conducive to the arts. This intensive artistic initiation forged the technical foundations that supported his future creativity.
Emigrating to Paris in 1958, at the age of 16, marked a geographical break that lastingly nourished his sensibility as a rootless artist. This adolescent expatriation influenced his vision of the world and his ability to observe human communities with the detached gaze of the foreigner.
His Parisian training, carried out concurrently at the École des Beaux-Arts and La Grande Chaumière until 1963, gave him a solid academic mastery while opening him to contemporary artistic trends. This dual training reveals an artist concerned with technical excellence and aesthetic openness.
The ritual of summer returns to Tel Aviv structures his life and work. This geographical bipolarity—Paris in winter, Tel Aviv in summer—fuels his cosmopolitan vision and his understanding of European and Mediterranean urban dynamics.
His pictorial style is characterized by a richness of color and a particular attention to spaces of sociability: bistros and markets become the theaters of his reflection on the contemporary human condition. This theme reveals an observer sensitive to the paradoxes of urban modernity.
His artistic approach explores the paradox of solitude in a crowd, a universal theme he explores throughout European social spaces. This philosophical approach distinguishes his work from simple genre painting to become a meditation on contemporary isolation.
His death in 2014 brought to a close a career spanning more than fifty years dedicated to capturing urban atmospheres and exploring human relationships in European public spaces.
