Jacov Nowogroder Original Oil on Canvas

Original oil on canvas paintings by Jacov Nowogroder. Certificate of authenticity attached to the reverse. Being sold as a pair. Paintings are approx. 25.5" x 26.75" and are in great condition for the age (1991). Jacov Nowogroder was born in Poland in 1939 and immigrated to Israel in 1957. He began sketching on paper as a child, constantly working to cultivate his own style of drawing into oil paintings. His first works in oil was exhibited in 1975, at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel-Aviv. Nowogroder paintings are featured in art galleries, museums and private collections in Israel and all over the world. At first his pictures look as though they are stories from a fairy-tale or children's story. The color-scale Nowogroder uses is modeled after the nineteenth century`s neo-romantic era. The aforementioned style of the bending plants and colorful trees is accomplished by extremely soft precision-work in which masterful fingers have applied brush onto canvas. A native of Poland, as a child, Jacov Nowogroder wandering among the ruins of a terrible war for six years. In Nowogroder works there are autobiographical elements and his sublime motifs, are the captivating coating of the tough experiences deep within his psyche.