Private View: Pinchas Litvinovsky, A Retrospective

Ein Sof Gallery is pleased to present a retrosepctive exhibition of Pinchas Litvinovsky’s paintings. 

Litvinovsky (1894-1985) was born to a religious family in Ukraine. At the age of 18, he began studying at the Odessa Art school, where he met Boris Schatz. Schatz invited him to study at his school, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, so the young Litvinovsky immigrated to Israel and studied at Schatz’s Bezalel for one year. In 1912, Litvinovsky rebelled and quit the institution (together with Reuven Rubin), over a fundamental disagreement over the institution’s conception of art, style, contents, and teaching methods.

After leaving the school, he traveled to Russia and studied at The Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1919, after World War I, he immigrated with his wife to Israel on board of the “Ruslan” ship. Among the immigrants were the architect Zeev Rechter, the dancer Baruch Agadati, the poets…