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David Maestro, Israeli, born in Yugoslavia, in 1927.

David Maestro was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in 1927. In 1940 he made Aliyah to the Land of Israel. In the 1940s Maestro studied painting with artists such as Marcel Janco, Mordechai Levanon, and Yohanan Simon. In addition he began to work in photography. In 1961 he was one of the founders of the department of photography at the Technion, where he worked in scientific photography. From 1968-1972 he worked as a photographer for the Israeli television authority in northern Israel. During the Six Day War he served as an army photographer. After the war he published the album “Northern Campaigns” (Jerusalem: Ministry of Security, 1967). His son is the photographer Eldad Maestro.

Although he also produced drawings and paintings, Maestro’s primary medium was photography. His works from the 1970s are impressionist depictions of the Israeli landscape. In the 1980s he produced a series of photographs based on the Lebanese War, as well as a series of staged photographs called “Via Dolorosa.”

Education

Oranim Art Institute, Tivon
1965 Color photography, Technion, Haifa
1968 Photography workshop, Germany
1968 Photography workshop, AGFA, UK
1972-76 Haifa University, art
1972 Photography and development workshop, AGFA, Antwerp
1978 Photography workshop, Kodak, UK

Teaching

1961-86 Head of the Scientific Photography Department at the Haifa Technion.
1983–2002 Senior staff member, Technion, Haifa
1986–97 Wizo Canada college, Haifa