Baruch Nachshon

Baruch Nachshon was born in 1939 in Haifa

Baruch Nachshon was born in Haifa in 1939 to Leah and Menachem Nachshon. From 1950 to 1958 he studied art with Shlomo Nernai, a student of Paul Cézanne.

He studied at the Kerem B'Yavneh yeshiva and later at the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva in Lod after drawing close to Chabad. He then enlisted in the IDF. In 1963 he married Sarah, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe gave him a scholarship to the School of Visual Arts in New York.

After the Six Day War he joined the first group of settlers in Hebron. He drew the city in black and white and later opened a gallery near the Cave of the Patriarchs. His oil paintings use Jewish images such as the Temple, the menorah and pomegranates in a naive realist style.

His work was shown at Chabad headquarters in New York, where the Rebbe visited the exhibition, and in countries including England, Australia and Argentina. In 2015 Koren Publishing released a book of psalms with his illustrations and notes by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.

He lived in Kiryat Arba and died on 13 September 2021. He was buried in the old Jewish cemetery in Hebron.