Moshe Rosentalis (1922 - )

  
Born in Marimpol, Lithuania, Rosentalis studied art at the Vilna Academy. In 1951 he won first prize at an exhibition of Lithuanian painting held at Moscow's Tretiakov Museum, which acquired four of his works. After immigrating to Israel in 1958, Rosentalis devoted himself to teaching and to the study of art trends in the Western World. He is an extraordinary colorist and an artist of (imaginative creativity. After an exhibition at the Che des Arts in Paris (1974) a critic described him as “the most French of artists”. He has had one-man shows all over Israel, as well as in Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. A large retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Herzlia Museum in 1983. He teaches art in many institutions and is a leading member of the Safed Art Colony.