Moshe Agmon (van der Veen) painter, born 1932, Amsterdam.
Agmon was the chairman of the Negev Painters Association.
In 1984 he moved to Tel-Aviv, later on he moved to Amsterdam, and then returned to Israel where he raised his family, painted and opened his own studio.

Education
1952-56 New Bezalel, Jerusalem,
Advanced studies with Mordecai Ardon

Teaching
Beit Ha’am, Beer-Sheva
Urban Secondary School, Beer Sheva

Awards and Prizes
1956 Negev Artists Prize, Nordman Foundation
1958 Negev Artists Prize, Nordman Foundation
1958 Association of Artists and Sculptors in Israel, Young Artists Prize
1960 Negev Artists Prize, Nordman Foundation
1960 Helena Rubinstein Foundation, First Prize and Scholarship in the Visual Arts and Fine Arts, American Cultural Center in the Visual and Fine Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
1968 Citation, The Painters and Sculptors Association Award, The Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv, Citation for Young Artists
1981 Golden Camel - ''Pargod'' Prize for Culture and Art, Presented to Agmon by the mayor of Beer-Sheva for his unique contribution to the city's culture.

Agmon van der Veen

Agmon was born in 1932 in Amsterdam. He immigrated to Israel from the Netherlands as a refugee and a holocaust orphan. As an adolescent he tried to be assimilated into the Israeli youth. Later on, he began to study painting in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Designs in Jerusalem. He was the favorite student of the famous painter Mordechai Ardon.
He won the Sharet Fund Prize, and then went back to the Netherlands for completing advanced study. He came back to Israel and settled in Beer-Sheba (a city in the South of Israel).

In the Negev’s capital, Beer-Sheba, he was a pioneer power in painting art as well as in crystallizing the city’s cultural ambience. He managed to unite around his charismatic personality a group of artists and was chosen as chairman of the Negev’s Painters Association.
His apartment was always a place of conference, and a center of exciting discussions about art, politics and life in general. Painters, poets, architects, scientists and a variety of guests visited his apartment almost every night, and he enabled an intensive dialogue to be taken place there.
In his communicative presence Agmon was a living center for the Beer-Sheba’s bohemia. He trained many students in a wide range of ages in the framework of painting instruction in different places, such as: Beit Ha’am, the Urban Secondary School and in private lessons at his studio. Famous artists grew up out of the rich apprenticeship he imparted them.

In the 80s, in his fifties, Agmon decided to leave Beer-Sheba and moved to Tel-Aviv. He won the Golden Camel Prize, which was given to him by Beer-Sheba’s mayor for his unique contribution to city’s culture.
He lived in Tel-Aviv for a few years, and then decided to return to his motherland, the Netherlands – craving to come back to his past origins and to the memory of his family, which was exterminated in the holocaust, and to the memory of his lost childhood.
Agmon raised a family in Israel and brought children and grandsons. Today he lives and works in the Netherlands.

Igal Vardi, psychologist, graphologist, painter and writer.

Biography

1932 – Born in Amsterdam
1947 – Emigration to Israel, admitted to Kibbutz Javne
1951-1956 – Art Study Academy Bezalel, Jerusalem. Student of Mordecai Ardon
1956 – Winner of “Negev Artist” Prize for Young Artists
1958 – Winner of “Negev Artist” Prize for Graphic Works
1956-1970 – Founder and President of the Artists' Association for Visual Artists, Writers, Actors and Musicians in Beer-Sheva and the Negev
1961 – Winner of the prestigious “Helena Rubestein” scholarship for graduate academics in the Visual Arts
1961-1963 – Study tour to Rome, Paris, Stockholm and Malmo. Follow-up study in Amsterdam
1960 - Graphic designer of the magazine "What's happening in the Negev?"
1960 – Participation in the first Biennale for young artists in Haifa Works with youth and teaches at the gymnasium with Dr P. Mentsl in Beer-Sheva
1963-1973 – Provides evening classes in the kibbutzim (organized by the Israeli Ministry of Culture), teaches Fine Arts at the Visual Academic Center in Beer-Sheva
1979-1988 – Teaches at the High School of the Arts in Tel-Aviv
1980 – Winner of the Audience Award “The Golden Camel”, the award presented by cultural newspaper “Pargot” for art and education in Israel
Since 1988 – Lives and works in Almere, the Netherlands
1988-1997 – Teacher General Visual Education at the CKV in Almere, member of Gallery Cirkel, co-founder of the Association of Visual Artists Flevoland (Lelystad)
Since 2008 – Honorary Member of the “International Academy of Professionals” (Moscow/Washington)
Since 2011 – Member of the Gooise Kunstkring (Gooise art circle).

Recent News & Shows

2012 – Mayor of Almere Stad, Annemarie Jorritsma, receives the publication 'The landscape in me'.
2013 – Agmon van der Veen's work is included in the collection of the Jewish Historical Museum.
2015 – Exhibition 'Connected'.
2015 – Solo exhibition 'Human landscape', Bottelaarpassage 67, Almere Stad.
2016 – Exhibition in Café op 2, Almere Stad.
2017 – Exhibition at Valerius food & drink, Amsterdam.
2018 – GENERATIONS, Israeli art exhibition, LJGalerie, Amsterdam.
2018 – ART NOT TO FORGET, National Holocaust Museum, Amsterdam.

Eénmanstentoonstellingen (One-Man Exhibitions)

1959 – Paviljoen Beth Ha-Am, Beer-Sheva
1965-1969 – Jaarlijkse tentoonstellingen, Negev Museum, Beer-Sheva
1967 – Museum Bath Yam
1969 – Beer-Sheva Museum
1972 – Oil paintings, Chemerinsky art gallery, Tel Aviv
1981 – Galerie Hadassa Klachkin, Tel-Aviv
1982 – Galerie Amalia Arbel, Tel-Aviv
1983 – Expositie van recent werk in Beer-Sheva Museum
1989 – De Fontein, Lelystad
1989 – Galerie te Kallmunz, Duitsland
1990 – Galerie Cirkel, Almere
1992 – Flevoziekenhuis, Almere
1997 – Galerie Gra­fiker, Haarlem
1998 – Galerie Bina Kain, Hod ha Sharon (Israel)
1999 – Studio Meijer, Hilversum
2000 – De Meerpal, Dronten
2001 – Provinciehuis, Lelystad
2002 – Galerie Demi-Jour, Muiden
2004 – Cultureel Centrum Corrosia, Almere
2009 – Cultureel Centrum Corrosia, Almere
2011 – De Nieuwe Bibliotheek, Almere
2012 – NH Jan Tabak, Bussum
2014 – Tijdelijke expositieruimte “De Passage”, Almere
2015 – Solo-expositie ‘Menselijk landschap’, Bottelaarpassage 67, Almere Stad
2016 – Expositie in Café op 2, Almere Stad

Tentoonstellingen (Group Exhibitions)

1956 – Paviljoen Elcharizi, Tel-Aviv
1959 – Beer-Sheva Museum
1959 – Museum Haifa
1962 – Groepstentoonstellingen van stipendiawinnaars in de Hebreeuwse Universiteit te Jeruzalem, paviljoen Weis
1963 – Uitnodiging om mee te doen, Dizengoff ‑ Museum, Tel-Aviv
1964 – Shagall Museum, Haifa
1967 – Uitnodiging om mee te doen aan de tentoonstelling jonge kunstenaars, Helena Rubinstein Paviljoen, Tel-Aviv
1970 – Negev Museum, Beer-Sheva
1989 – De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
1989 – Engineering Gebouw te Amersfoort
1989-1992 – Voorjaarsexposities in galerie De Fontein, Lelystad
1989 – Deelnemer van de expositie “De elementen en het eiland”, Schokland
1990 – Galerie De Eend, Den Haag
1992 – Stadsgalerie Gouda
1992 – Uitwisselingsexpositie in Alborg, Denemarken
1988-1993 – Deelname aan jaarlijkse docentententoonstellingen
1995 – “Alle kulturen festival”, Gebouw Corrosia, Almere
1997 – Groepstentoonstelling “Omanoet Modernit” in het kader van 50 jaar Staat Israël, Gemeentehuis, Haarlem
1999-2001 – Deelname aan “Kunst Route Almere”
1999 – Groepstentoonstelling, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
1999 – Alosery Art Gallery, Almere
2001 – Galerie OTHer MARk Art, Almere
2008 – Rabobank, Almere
2009 – Duo-tentoonstelling, Cultureel Centrum Corrosia, Almere
2010 – Van Lanschot Bank, Almere
2011 – Tentoonstelling tijdens Nieuwjaarsreceptie van Gemeente Almere, De Kunstlinie, Almere
2012 – Stichting Art Culture, stadshart Almere
2012 – Boekpresentatie “Het landschap in mij” De Nieuwe Bibliotheek, Almere
2012 – Biënnale van de miniatuur, Theater “Spaant!”
2013 – Kunstmanifestatie, Het kasteel Groeneveld, Baarn
2013 – Galerie Jillian, Almere
2014 – Galerie Jillian, 25 jaar Kunstenaarsvereniging Flevoland
2014 – Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
2014 – Liberaal Joodse Gemeente, Amsterdam. Deelname aan de Tentoonstelling “Let there be light”
2015 – Expositie ‘Connected’, De Passage, Almere Stad.

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