David bekker biography
- David Bekker was.
- David Yona Bekker was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1897.
- David Bekker was born in Vilna, Poland.
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About David Bekker
David Yona Bekker was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1897. He studied art in the Antikolsky Academy of Vilna. His father, Avraham Menachem Mendel Bekker, was a painter and mural designer. He encouraged young David in his artistic leanings.
In 1910, David's mother Raizeh (nee Meletz) and her daughter Rivka went to Palestine, joining her eldest son and two of her daughters. David arrived in Palestine in 1911, together with his father and sister. Upon seeing the landscape and beauty of the Holy Land, David was immediately moved to take up pen and paper to capture the scene. The family was re-united in Jerusalem. David Bekker continued his art education in the Bezalel Academy of Art under the founder Prof. Boris Schatz and the artist Abel Pann.
During the First World War, Bekker was stranded in Bulgaria where he had been commissioned to do carvings in wood and metal. He subsequently went to Rumania where he designed coins, medals and ivory carvings for King Carol I. He continued his studies in England, France, and the United States. He studied at the Academy of Fin
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
David Bekker was an American painter who was born in 1897.
How much does a David Bekker cost?
David Bekker's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 172 USD to 5,625 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.What is David Bekker's most expensive painting?
Since 2005 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,625 USD for The Cabalist, sold at Hindman, Chicago in 2022.Where can I see David Bekker's works?
Numerous key galleries and museums such as Koehnline Museum of Art have featured David Bekker's work in the past.David Bekker in the news
In MutualArt’s artist press archive, David Bekker is featured in Giving Form to Pathos: A Review of David Bekker at Koehnline Museum of Art, a piece from New City Art in January 2020. The artist died in 1955.- •
Modernism in the New City
David Bekker was born in Vilna, Poland (now Lithuania), on May 1, 1897. He began night classes at age 11 at the Art School in Vilna, studying with sculptor Mark Antokolsky. At age 14, he emigrated to Palestine, increasingly aware of a “Jewish strain” in art. There, he studied with Abel Pann, a painter, and Boris Schatz, a Vilna sculptor and founder of the Bezalel Art School. Pann left Palestine several years later, and Bekker left for Paris to continue his studies. During World War I, while stranded in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bekker did some carvings in wood and metal that attracted the attention of the official engraver for the Count of Rumania, who gave him a job in Bucharest. He stayed for a year, designing coins and medals, carving portraits in ivory, and engraving plates for official papers. Subsequently, Bekker lived in London and the United States, landing in Boston, before eventually going to Denver. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Denver for a year.
Bekker likely came to Chicago in the late 1920s or early 1930s as a show of linocuts was
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