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Israel Hershberg, Israeli painter, born in Austria, 1948. For his art, he was awarded the Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art in 1991.
Israel Hershberg was born in a DP camp in Linz, Austria. In 1949, he moved to Israel where he lived until the age of nine. In 1958, he emigrated with his family to the United States, where he got involved in art and Old Masters paintings. In 1984, he returned to Israel with his family and in 1988 founded the Painting and Drawing Workshop in Jerusalem which has become a major Figurative and Realistic art center for Israeli painters.
Hershberg's art includes landscapes and still-life paintings. His painting style emphasizes the surface of the objects, and through them, the passage of time.

Education

1966-68 Brooklyn Museum School, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
1969-72 B.A. Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, New York.
1973 M.F.A. State University of New York, Albany, New York.

Teaching

1973–1984 Instructor of Painting at Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1984 New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
1988– Founder & Artistic Director, The Jerusalem Studio School, Jerusalem

Awards And Prizes

1980 Ford Foundation Scholarship
1991 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1991 Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Isracard Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1998 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2015 Mordechai Ish-Shalom Life Work Prize, The Artists House, Jerusalem