Pinchas Litvinovsky

Pinchas Litvinovsky (פנחס ליטבינובסקי&lrm;; August 11, 1894– September 15, 1985), was a prominent Israeli painter.

Biography
born in 1894 in Novogeorgievsk, to a religious Jewish family. He studied at the Academy of Art in Odessa, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and Imperial Academy of Arts in the city Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Litvinovsky immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1919 with the first wave of settlers of the Third Aliyah, on board the SS. Ruslan.

In the 1930s Litvinovsky traveled to Paris several times where he encountered the art of Georges Roux, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso Joan Miró, and the painters of the School of Paris. In the early 1950s, Litvinovsky settled down in the Katamon neighbourhood of Jerusalem. He won several awards for his achievements, most notably the 1980 Israel Prize for Painting.

Pinchas Litvinovsky died on the eve of Rosh Hashanah 1985 in Jerusalem.

Selected solo exhibitions

 * 1935 - the Bezalel National Museum
 * 1944 - Tel Aviv Museum of Art
 * 1960 - A retrospective exhibition in the home of Helena Rubinstein,Tel Aviv Museum of Art
 * 1986 -  to commemorate the first anniversary of Litvinovsky's death, the Knesset
 * 1990 - Pinchas Litvinovsky: In Search of the Roots of Life,  The Israel Museum in Jerusalem (curator: Yigal Zalmona)
 * 2024 - Pinchas Litvinovsky: You Must Choose Life—That is Art (curator: Amichai Chasson), Beit Avi Chai Gallery, Jerusalem

Awards and recognition

 * In 1939, Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv – Jaffa
 * In 1970, Litvinovsky received the Yakir Yerushalayim (Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) award (along with Anna Ticho).
 * In 1980 - Israel Prize for Painting (with Anna Ticho and Yosl Bergner).