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Sheldon Clyde Schoneberg, American, acted in Israel, 1926-2012

Sheldon Schoneberg was born in 1926 in Oak Park, Illinois. The family were Conservative-Reform Jews, and in the late 1920s moved to California. In 1947, after completing his art studies, he went to Italy, where he specialized in fresco painting. At the beginning of 1948, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan. At the beginning of 1948, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan. He returned to the United States in 1950. He went on to study art and moved closer to Mexican painting, returning to Israel in 1952. At first he lived in Yaakov Steinhardt's home in Jerusalem, and then he moved to Kibbutz Ma’ale HaHamisha, where he taught drawing and painting fresco, and returned to live in the United States from 1955 to 1953. When he returned, at the invitation of Abba Hushi, in 1955, he lived in Haifa In 1956 he left Israel permanently.

Schoneberg's earlier work was influenced by Jewish tradition. His works in Israel combined the tradition of realistic-social painting with national allegories in the spirit of the Renaissance and the tradition of the Mexican mural. Among other things, he created frescoes at Beit Tzila in Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha (1953), at the Itamar House in Kibbutz Afikim (1953) and at Beit Erdstein in Haifa (1956).

Education

1947 BFA in Art, University of Southern California
1947 Graduate studies in fresco painting, The School of Fine Arts, Rome
1951 MFA in Art, University of Southern California with excellence
1952 Graduate studies in fresco painting, Michoacán University, Morelia, Mexico
1952 Graduate studies with Alfredo Zalce Torres, Mexico

Teaching

1952 The Pratt Institute of Art, New York
1953-1954 Fresco Painting, Kibbutz Afikim