Tuvia Beeri

Tuvia Beeri was an Israeli painter, printmaker and art teacher known for his color aquatint prints.

1929 to 2022Color aquatint printsTeaching etching in IsraelFounding the Tel Aviv print workshop

Born: 29 August 1929, Topoľčany
Occupation: painter, educator, graphic artist
Founded: Tel Aviv Artists' Association Print Workshop, Tel Aviv-Yafo (1965)

Tuvia Beeri was born in 1929 in Topoľčany

Tuvia Beeri was born in 1929 in Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia. He immigrated to Israel in 1948. He was a member of Kibbutz Lahavot Haviva until the early 1960s.

He studied art at Oranim with the painters Marcel Janco and Yaakov Wexler. From 1961 to 1963 he lived in Paris, where he studied color aquatint with Johnny Friedlaender and attended the École des Beaux-Arts.

In 1963 he returned to Israel and began teaching at Bezalel, and from 1964 he also taught at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv. In 1965 he set up the etching workshop at the Avni Institute and founded the print workshop of the Tel Aviv artists' association.

His early oil paintings showed stylized city views, and from 1958 he worked in an abstract style. Color aquatint became central to his work, with circles and other geometric shapes. He also made watercolors and, in the 1990s, small acrylic paintings.

In 2001 he received the Eli Oshorov Prize for contribution to Israeli art. His work is held by the Israel Museum and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He died in May 2022.