david Lan-Bar

Lanberg David's pseudonym. Born in 1912 in Rave-Russkaye (Poland). Died in 1987 in Paris. Twentieth century. Active since 1948 in France. Polish. Painter. Abstract. He immigrated to Israel in 1935, where he attended university and took up painting, studying with Streichman and Stematsky. 

In 1948, he came to work in Paris, where he settled, and took courses at the École des Beaux-Arts. He participated in numerous group exhibitions, notably in Paris: Salons des Réalités Nouvelles from 1959 to 1963, Salons des Indépendants, Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Comparisons, as well as Biennale de Menton in 1955, Biennale de Sao Paulo in 1961 He has also exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Haifa, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. 

The Vesoul Museum in 1988 and the Israeli Museum in Paris in 1993-1994 devoted retrospective exhibitions to him, as well as the Lelia Mordoch gallery in Paris in 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998. From a tormented figuration, it evolved towards abstraction in the 1950s. Worked with a knife, with violence, the colors blossom in a luminous composition. Strokes and lines overlap, collide, perfectly mastered.