Zwy Milshtein, born June 25, 1934 in Chișinău (Kingdom of Romania, now in Moldova) and died February 4, 2020 in Montreuil, is a French painter of Romanian origin. Fleeing his native Moldova during the Nazi invasion, he crossed Eastern Europe before settling in Israel with his mother and brother. Between 1943 and 1944, he studied painting at the Palace of Pioneers in Tbilisi, then in Bucharest with the painter George Ștefănescu. He continued his artistic training in Cyprus in sculpture with Ben-Tsvi and, from 1948, in Israel with painters such as Raitler, Avni, Ardon and Mokady.
In 1952, Milshtein participated in the magazineLikrat, representing new poetry in Hebrew with Nathan Zach and David Avidan. In 1956, he received a scholarship from the Norman Foundation to study in Paris. He exhibited his first engravings in 1963 and published his first artist's book,MICROCOSM, in 1965. In 1966, he received the Critics' Prize for engraving, and in 1967, he publishedSOLANGE FILE, his first literary text.
From 1986, he explored Digigraphie and continued to produce innovative works. In 2007, he moved into his studio in Gleizé, in the Rhône department. Zwy Milshtein remained recognized for his contribution to contemporary French art through his prints, paintings, and artist's books until his death in 2020.
