Gershon Iskowitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian artist
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Place of Birth: Kielce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland
About Gershon Iskowitz
- Gershon Iskowitz (November 21, 1921 – January 26, 1988) was a Canadian artist of Jewish background originally from Poland.
- Iskowitz was a Holocaust survivor of the Kielce Ghetto, who was liberated at Buchenwald.
- The circumstances of his early life—the trauma of the Holocaust and the uncertainty of the immediate postwar period, followed by immigration and adaptation to Canada—provide a lens through which to understand and appreciate his work.
- His early figurative images represent his tragic observed and remembered experiences while his later luminous abstract works represent his own unique vision of the world.
- Iskowitz's work does not easily fit into contemporary schools and movements, but it has been characterized as hard-edge, minimalist, abstract expressionist, and action painting.
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