Amos Ellenbogen

Amos Ellenbogen was born in 1963 in Tel Aviv

Amos Ellenbogen was born on October 5, 1963, and grew up in Tel Aviv. His mother, Rachel, was a homemaker and seamstress. His father, Otto Ellenbogen, born in Vienna in 1922, was a painter, archaeologist and tour guide who chaired the Painters and Sculptors Association.

He struggled at school due to attention deficit disorder and repeated a grade twice. He studied graphics at Ironi Yud Daled high school. After the army he studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and graduated with honors.

His first works appeared in 1988. In the 1990s he was the staff illustrator of Kulanu, Monitin and Bamahane, and he also illustrated commercial campaigns. From 1994 he wrote the personal column Mila Shel Gever, first in Yedioth Ahronoth and later in La'Isha.

In 1998 he began teaching illustration at the Holon Institute of Technology, and later taught at other colleges. He published cartoon books in 1999 and 2009. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife Orly and their 3 sons.