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Yosl Bergner

                        Yosl Bergner  was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920, and spent his childhood in                                 Warsaw, Poland. The son of a poet and a singer, Bergner took painting lessons                               before emigrating to Australia in 1937 as a seventeen year old. He struggled to                                survive in Australia, undertaking a series of menial jobs while studying painting at                             the National Gallery Art School, Melbourne. He painted images which were                                     essentially autobio-graphical, views of a dark, bleak urban environment, inhabited                        by lonely and dispossessed people, works which inspired many young Melbourne artists during the 1940s. Fellow student, Noel Counihan remarked that `The lonely drinker, the city rat-catchers, scavengers, refugees from Hitlerism, the woman of the slums - street sweepers - these were his subjects ... The compassion, humanity and deep sincerity of his art attracted immediate and deep attention.' During the second world war Bergner served in the Australian Army Labour Company at Tocumwal 1941-6 and after-wards gained a Commonwealth Rehabilitation Scholarship to return to his studies at the National Gallery Art School. He left Australia in 1948, travelling first to Paris and then to Israel, where he currently lives and works.

YB #1

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YB #7

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YB #8

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YB #6

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"The Wedding"

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YB #10

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YB #9

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