Yehezkel Streichman

Yehezkel Streichman was an Israeli painter who cofounded the abstract painters group New Horizons. Streichman was born in Lithuania and immigrated to Palestine in 1924, studying painting at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem before completing his studies in Paris and Florence. French abstract expressionism had a profound influence on Streichman’s art, which mingles figurative and abstract forms. Streichman returned to Tel Aviv from Europe in 1936 to teach at the Avni Institute of Art and Design and run an atelier. Among Streichman’s many awards was the Dizengoff Prize for painting and sculpture, which he received on four separate occasions; in 1990, he was awarded the Israel Prize for painting.