Creator Bio
Naftali Bezem
1924–2018
German-born painter, muralist, and sculptor Naftali Bezem was sent to Palestine on Youth Aliyah by his family in 1939. He studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and at the Centre d’Arts Sacré in Paris. He is best known for two of his commissioned works, the metal relief at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem and the ceiling painting in the president’s residence in Jerusalem.
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Shepherd with Lamb
Bezem (d. 2018)’s art, which once gave expression to his immigration to Palestine, the loss of his parents in the Holocaust, and his sense of rebirth in Israel, was dramatically transformed after his…