Abraham Yakin

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Abraham Yakin (Hebrew: אברהם יכין; 31 July 1924 – 10 May 2020)[1] was an Israeli artist.

Background

Abraham Yakin was born in

Bezalel Academy, where he studied with Jacob Steinhardt and Mordecai Ardon
.

With Israel's declaration of independence, Yakin joined the Israel Defense Forces. He resumed his studies in 1950, and he had his first exhibition in 1953. In 1957 he married Hannah, an artist who had recently immigrated from the Netherlands. The couple divided their time between raising eight children, teaching art in Jerusalem, and exhibiting extensively in Israel, Europe and the United States.

In 1961 Abraham Yakin won the international Adolphe Neumann Prize in Paris. Works of Yakin are in the

Musee d'Art Juif, Paris, and several museums in the Netherlands.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ^ "האומן אברהם יכין הלך לעולמו - חדשות בארץ - ערוץ 7 חדשות, פוליטיקה, תרבות, יהדות ועוד".

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