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About Abraham Yakin
- Abraham Yakin (Hebrew: ????? ?????; born July 31, 1924) is an Israeli artist. Abraham Yakin was born in Jerusalem.
- During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy and served three years in the Mediterranean Fleet.
- During this time he became acquainted with the art of Egypt, Greece, France and Italy.
- After the war, he returned to Jerusalem and joined the Haganah.
- At the same time, he started his artistic training at Bezalel Academy, where he studied with Jacob Steinhardt and Mordecai Ardon.
- With Israel's Declaration of Independence, Yakin joined the Israel Defense Forces.
- He resumed his studies in 1950, and he had his first exhibition in 1953.
- In 1957 he married Hannah, an artist who had recently immigrated from the Netherlands.
- The couple divided their time between raising eight children, teaching art in Jerusalem, and exhibiting extensively in Israel, Europe and the United States.
- In 1961 Abraham Yakin won the international Adolphe Neumann Prize in Paris.
- Works by the Yakin are in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Musee d'Art Juif, Paris, and several museums in the Netherlands.
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