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Yosef Halevy, Israeli, 1923-2009.

Yosef Halevy was born in Tel Aviv in 1923 to a well-to-do Yemenite family. In his youth, he worked in light athletics. During the War of Independence he served in the Kiryati Brigade. After his military service, he studied at the Physical Education Academy and served as a physical education teacher at Gimnasia Herzliya and in a school in the city of Netanya. In the 1950s he studied art at HaMidrasha for Painting Teachers and began to practice art as his sole profession. In the early 1970s he emigrated from Israel. At first he lived in Germany and in 1974 settled in the Netherlands.

Yosef Halevi's early works were characterized by a figurative approach, an "oriental" atmosphere and the use of images such as animals, angels and more. At the end of the 1950s the trend of abstraction in his work intensified. Beginning in the 1980s, he began to work in a lighter and more colorful color scheme. In his later work he combined writing-like calligraphic images.

Education

1953-55 Ramat Hasharon College for Art Teachers
College for physical fitness

Awards And Prizes

1961 Histadrut Prize for Sculpture
1962 Dizengoff Prize