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Yona Fischer

Yona Fischer
Born(1932-11-20)20 November 1932
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Died3 March 2022(2022-03-03) (aged 89)
Tel Aviv, Israel
OccupationArt curator
Years active1954–2022
AwardsIsrael Prize

Yona Fischer (Hebrew: יונה פישר; 20 November 1932 – 3 March 2022) was an Israeli art curator and art critic. Winner of the Israel Prize for Design for the year 1977.

Biography

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Yona Fisher was born in 1932 in Tel Aviv to Maurice Fischer and Dina (nee Rizkin). He was named after his grandfather, Jonah (Jean) Fischer. In 1933 his family moved to live in Ramat Gan. During the Second World War he, together with his brother, joined his father in Sidon and then in Beirut, where he studied at the "Alliance" schools. In 1947 he moved to Paris, France, where his father served as the political secretary of the Jewish Agency. At first he attended the "Maimond" school in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris.[1] After that he attended school in a town called Villard-de-Lans in the French Alps. In his youth he heard lectures on art held at the Louvre Museum. At that time he met the painter Avigdor Aricha, with whom he formed a long-standing friendship. In 1951 he returned to Israel and enlisted in the IDF. He served as a guide for the children of new immigrants within the framework of the Gadna in Be'er Sheva and the suburbs of Jerusalem. After his release, in 1954, he remained living in Jerusalem.

Before becoming a curator, Yona Fisher used to draw, mostly in ink, small landscape sketches that documented his travels. On the 90th anniversary of his birth, some of his drawings were shown in an exhibition at the Kufeferman Collection House, curated by Mayra Perry-Lehmann.[1]

Professional Career

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Fischer began his career in the 1960s at the Bezalel Museum. In 1965 at the opening of the Israel Museum he was appointed curator of Israeli and modern art, and later at the Ashdod Museum of Art. He introduced the works of prominent Israeli artists like Raffi Lavie and Moshe Kupferman.[2] Fisher and Kupferman met in 1967. Kupferman's first major solo exhibition was curated by Fischer in 1969.[3] Fischer was a recipient of the Israel Prize for design.[2] Fischer died on 3 March 2022, at the age of 89.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "יונה פישר: מבט אינטימי נובמבר 2022". אוסף קופפרמן (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-01-14.
  2. ^ a b Cohen, Richard I. (2012). Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History. Oxford University Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-0199934249. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  3. ^ "The Austere Artist". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  4. ^ ""נוכחותו היתה הבסיס לסצינת האמנות". האוצר יונה פישר מת בגיל 89". Haaretz. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2022.


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