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Nachum Gutman (as he himself signed; alternate romanisation: Nahum Gutman; October 5, – November 28, ) was a Moldovan-born Israeli painter, sculptor....
Nachum Gutman
Moldovan-born Israeli artist (–)
Nachum Gutman (as he himself signed;[1] alternate romanisation: Nahum Gutman; Hebrew: נחום גוטמן: October 5, November 28, ) was a Moldovan-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author.
Biography
Nachum Gutman was born in Teleneşti, Bessarabia Governorate, then a part of the Russian Empire (now in the Republic of Moldova). He was the fourth child of Sim[c]ha Alter and Rivka Gutman. His father was a Hebrew writer and educator who wrote under the pen name S.
Ben Zion[he].
He was one of the organizers of the Yiddish Folkschule where he organized the first “Yiddish art” exhibit in San Francisco.
In , the family moved to Odessa, and two years later, to Ottoman Palestine. In , Gutman attended the Herzliya Gymnasium in what would later become Tel Aviv. In , he studied at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem. In –26, he studied art in Vienna, Berlin and Paris.
Gutman was married to Dora, with whom he had a son. After Gutman's death in , Dora asked two Tel Aviv gallery owners, Meir Stern of Stern Gallery and Miriam Tawin of Shulamit Ga