Raffi Kaiser (1931 - )

Studies successively at: Fine-Arts School Tel-Aviv, Ecole des Beaux-Arts - Paris, and later at the Accademia di Belle Arti - Florence.

1960-1962
Lives in Toscany, studies Italian Medieval and Renaissance art.

1962
Moves to Paris.

1967
First prize winner - Adolphe Neuman contest. Winner of the "Best Foreign Artist" contest Musée d'art moderne de la Vile de Paris, France.

1968
Individual exhibition - Galerie 44, Brussels. Individual exhibition - Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv.

1969
Five Israeli Artists at Saginawa Museum Michigan, USA.

1970
The International Biennial of Bradford, Great-Britain.

1972
Individual exhibition - Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Participates in "Les Fantastiques Contemporains" - Galerie Gaubert, Paris.

1975
International Fair of Basel, Switzerland. Individual exhibition - Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel. Group exhibition - Galerie Liliane François, Paris.

1976
" Espaces insolites" - exhibition - Palais des Congrès, Strasbourg, France. First Art Critics' Fair - Paris-La Défense.

1977
Israeli Perspective - Grand Palais, Paris. Individual exhibition - Aberbach Fine Art, New-York.

1978
Individual exhibition - Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel. Participates in the Israeli Art Festival - Ottawa, Canada.

1978--1980
Draws in the Israeli wilderness (Negev and Judea deserts).

1979
Israeli Art Festival - Berlin, Germany.

1980
Individual exhibition - Galerie Noir, Paris.

1982
Publication of "Espaces et Esprit d'Israel" edited by Images publishers, lithographies by Raff Kaiser.

1985
Individual exhibition - Galerie de France, Paris. Individual exhibition - Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany. Individual exhibition - De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands.

1986
The International Fair of Basel Individual exhibition - Goldman Gallery, Haifa.

1987
Six months' stay and travel throughout the Popular Republic of China, following the steps of the artists of the Soung and Yuan periods (10th -13th centuries AD).

1988
Individual exhibition - Stuttgart town-hall, Stuttgart, Germany.

1990
Individual exhibition - Musée Guimet, Paris. Individual exhibition - Galerie Heyram - Mabel Semmler, Paris. Preparation of a rare publication at the Government Printing Office.

1991 (29/9/91-03/11/91)
Individual exhibition - Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany.

1991
The first painter invited by the Nomura Cultural Foundation for a 12 months' stay in Japan. Travels throughout the Japanese mountains.

1992
Publication of "Livre des Roches et des Nuages" by the Government Printing Office; poems by Kenneth White, drawings by Raffi Kaiser.

1993
Obtains the French Foreign Affairs' scholarship - a three months' stay at Villa Kujoyama Kyoto, Japan.

1994
Group exhibition - Galerie de l'Etoile- Mabel Semmier, Paris. Participates in the reopening activities of Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany.

1995-1997
Sejourns in Negev and Judea deserts - Israel.

1997
Individual exhibition - Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris.

1998
individual exhibition - De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands.

1999
Individual exhibition - Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, Germany. Individual exhibition - Galerie "Espace Furstemberg" Mabel Semmler, Paris.

2000
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Nijgata Prefecture, Japan.

2001
Individual exhibition - Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg (Katalog)

2003
Individual exhibition - Galleria del Leone, Venedig

2006
Individual exhibition - Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt
Raffi Kaiser „Paravents“
Individual exhibition - Raffi Kaiser „Premordiel Landscapes“
Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt