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Catriel Ephrony, Israeli painter, born 1923, Austria, died 2011, Israel.

Catriel Ephrony was born in Vienna, Austria. After the rise of the Nazis, he immigrated to the Land of Israel with Youth Aliyah. He was one of the founders of Kibbutz Gesher in the Jordan Valley, where he lived for many years.He studied art at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv. Later he spent three years in South America, studying at Bellas-Artes in Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil, and went to Paris, France, for further training. Eventually he settled in the artists' quarter in Safed, where he lived and worked.
Ephrony worked in acrylic, watercolor and pen and ink. His abstract style became more figurative and expressionist over the years.

Education

1960's Avni Art Institute, Tel Aviv, studied under Roth and Yehezkel Streichman
1967-70 Academy of Bellas-Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1970-71 The Academy of Fine Arts,Paris, France, Advanced Studies

Awards And Prizes

1972 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Jordan Valley Regional Council