Aharon Gluska (born 1951) is an Israeli–American painter.

Aharon Gluska
Born1951
Hadera, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
EducationAcadémie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Israel
Known forPainting
Websitewww.agluska.com

Early life

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Gluska was born in 1951 in Hadera, Israel. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv.

Grants

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Gluska received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Awards

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Gluska was one of two winners of the 1996 Zussman Prize for artists dealing with the Holocaust, from the Yad Vashem museum, for his paintings of prisoners at Auschwitz based on photographs of them taken by their Nazi guards.[1][2]

Public collections

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Gluska's art is displayed in the following locations:

References

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  1. ^ "Gluska, Kupferman win Yad Vashem art prizes", Jerusalem Post, November 28, 1996, archived from the original on April 9, 2016
  2. ^ "Artists of the Holocaust Awarded Zussman Prize", Israel Faxx, December 16, 1996, archived from the original on April 9, 2016
  3. ^ "Aharon Gluska". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
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