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Israeli artist

Moshe Mokady (Brandstatter) (1902–1975) is an Israeli artist.

Biography

Mokady was born in Tarnów with the name Moshe Brandstatter, to Abraham and Helena Brandstatter.

In 1914 his family moved to Vienna where he studied painting with Lazar Krestin until 1916. in 1916 Mokady moved to Zürich and studied music and the piano. In 1920 Mokady immigrated to the Mandate Palestine with his family, initially settling in Haifa.

During the years 1922–1923 he continued his art studies in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He lived in Paris during the years 1927–1933 where he continued studying art. Mokady returned to the Mandate Palestine in 1933, living in Jerusalem and then Tel Aviv.

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He co-directed a school for drawing and painting in Jerusalem between the years 1933–1935 and in 1949 became the Director of the Art Department of the Ministry of Education and Culture. He was the first Director of the Avni Institute of Painting and Sculpture in Tel Aviv.

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