Alphabetical list of artists

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Paul Paon (Zaharia), painter, born 1915, Bucharest, Romania. Immigrated 1961, died in Haifa, 1994.

Born Zaharia Herscovici, changed his name to Zaharia Zaharia Paun (a pseudonym for "peacock"). He was a Romanian and Israeli avant-garde poet and visual artist, and an illustrator; wrote in Romanian and French, and produced surrealist and abstract art and poetry. He was also a practicing doctor of medicine and surgery and co-founder in 1930 in Bucharest of the Magazines "Algae" and "Viata Imediate", wherein his poetry was published. The group that founded the magazines received their cultural inspiration from "Dada" and Surrealism. In 1939 he founded the Surrealist Group -with Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, Virgil Teodorescu, Dolfi Trost,and Jules Perahim -"the Group of Five"- which exhibited in Bucharest in 1946 and in London in 1949. He mastered the techniques of pencil and pen and ink drawings combined with the use of a magnifying glass after making Aliyah to Haifa, Israel.

Education

1930-34 High School in Bucharest, Romania
1936-40 University of Bucharest, Romania, Medical Degree, Surgeon