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Moi Ver

Moi Ver, born Moses Vorobeichic and later named Moshe Raviv, was an Israeli photographer, painter and graphic designer known for his photomontages.

1904 to 1995Avant-garde photomontageThe photo book ParisPhotographs of Jewish VilnaThe Safed artists colony

Born: 5 December 1904, Zaskavičy
Died: 20 January 1995, Safed
Occupation: photographer, painter, graphic designer
Education: Bauhaus, École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière

Moi Ver was born in 1904 in Zaskavičy

He was born in 1904 in Lyebyedzyeva, in today's Belarus, the eldest son of Shlomo and Shifra Vorobeichic. His father was a timber merchant. In 1915 the family moved to Vilna.

In Vilna he finished a Hebrew high school and studied art and architecture at the university. He then studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers. Later he studied photography at a school in Paris.

In 1931 he published a photo book on the Jewish street in Vilna and the book Paris, a collection of photomontages. In 1932 a French weekly sent him to the Land of Israel as a photo reporter. He settled in Tel Aviv in 1934 and worked as a photographer and designer of posters, ads and city emblems.

In 1953 he joined the artists colony in Safed, where he opened a gallery and focused on painting Hasidic life and sacred texts. He died in Safed in 1995. Retrospective exhibitions of his work opened at the Pompidou Center in 2023 and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2024.