Yosl Bergner

Yosl Bergner was an Israeli painter born in Vienna and raised in Warsaw, who spent formative years in Melbourne, Australia before settling in Israel in 1948. His work often reflected themes of displacement, Jewish identity, and surrealism, drawing from his personal experiences as a Jewish immigrant and the tragedies of the Holocaust. He became one of Israel's most celebrated figurative painters, known for his expressive, dreamlike imagery.