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Avigdor Stematsky
A life shaped by light and color Avigdor Stematsky arrived in Palestine from Odessa in 1921 as part of his family's move. His early years were spent in the Neve Shalom neighborhood of Tel Aviv, a place where his father’s bookshop would eventually become known as Steimatzky. He began his formal training at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, studying alongside figures like Arie Aroch and Moshe Castel. In 1929, he moved
to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Académie Colarossi. This period in France brought a shift toward the values of modernism. The way he handled paint changed as his surroundings did. In his early years, his work often featured black contours and a more structured view of the world, such as his depiction of Jerusalem in 1928. He later moved away from these lines. Under the influence of Yitzhak Frenkel’s studio…