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Joseph Milbauer
1897, Warsaw Poland - 1968, Israel
A Building
Original Hand-Signed Charcoal -
circa the 1950s Past Provenance: The collection of Gabriel Talphir (1901-1990, Israeli important and acclaimed art critic and collector, publisher, editor, translator and poet).
Documented in the book "100 Artists in Israel who passed away in the years 1908-1970" by Gabriel Talphir, Gazith Art Publishing, Tel Aviv, 1971 (no. 103).
Artist Name: Joseph Milbauer
Title: A building
Signature Description: Hand-signed in Hebrew lower right
Technique: Charcoal on paper
Image Size: 48 x 27 cm / 18.9" x 10.63" inch
Frame: Unframed
Condition: Good condition with no
tears, rips, holes, wrinkles, repairs, paint peelings or losses, few light aging stains at the bottom consistent with the age and use.
Artist's Biography:
JOSEPH MILBAUER (1897-1968),
poet, writer, journalist, scientific editor, translator, and painter.
Born in Warsaw, Milbauer was raised in Brussels where, in 1914, he met Shalom
Aleichem, some of whose works he later translated.
He went to Paris in 1921. Milbauer's early verse collections were well
received. During the 1930s he was for a time deputy editor-in-chief of
"L'Univers Israélite” but his outspoken Zionist opinions brought him into
conflict with the paper's directors, and he resigned.
Milbauer fought in both world wars and was a prisoner of war but after some
harrowing experiences arrived in Ereẓ Israel (then Mandatory Palestine) as an
illegal immigrant in 1944.
He headed the French desk at the Keren Hayesod and was a
co-founder of a French literary circle which developed into the Association des
Amitiés Israël-France. Milbauer published several more volumes of poetry, often
inspired by the landscape of Israel. His other works include translations
of S.Y. Agnon, Ḥ.N. Bialik, and S. Tchernichowsky and the
anthology Poètes yiddisch d'aujourd'hui (1936). bibliography: C. Vigée, in: L'Arche, 134 (1968), 63–64. Joseph Milbauer, poet and painter,
born 1897, Warsaw.
Moved to Belgium and France. He wrote in French.
Appointed editor of the Journal "The Jewish World" an official
journal of French Jewry until it became a Zionist journal. Started painting in
his free time in his later years.
In 1943, he joined a group of partisans who were in the underground.
Milbauer arrived in Ereẓ Israel (then Mandatory Palestine) as an illegal
immigrant in 1944 and settled in Israel.
He was appointed director at Keren Hayesod in Jerusalem and went on missions
abroad on behalf of the Mossad.
Milbauer featured nature and in 1969 a joint exhibition was held at the Artists
House in Jerusalem with the painter Glika Milbauer, his wife.
In 1970, after he passed away, he
had a joint exhibition was held at the Gallery 220, Tel-Aviv with his
wihe, the painter Glika Milbauer.
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