Seven Smoked Fish on a Grinding Slab

Israel Hershberg was born in a displaced persons’ camp in Linz, Austria, moved to Israel as an infant, and then at age nine immigrated to the United States. In 1984, he returned to Israel. Hershberg is considered one of the world’s foremost realist painters. He is the recipient of the Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art (1991) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize for Israeli Art (1997). He is the founder and artistic director of the Jerusalem Studio School.