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Zwy Milshtein

Zwy Milshtein was a Romanian-born French painter, printmaker and writer.

1934 to 2020Painting and engraving in FranceThe Likrat Hebrew poetry groupThe artist's book MICROCOSME

Born: 25 June 1934, Chișinău
Died: 4 February 2020, Montreuil
Occupation: painter, writer, printmaker, graphic artist

Zwy Milshtein was born in 1934 in Chișinău

Zwy Milshtein was born in Chișinău in 1934. He fled Europe before the Nazi invasion in World War II. From 1943 to 1944 he studied at a Pioneers Palace in Tbilisi.

In 1946 he moved to Bucharest with the painter George Ștefănescu. He left for Israel the following year and briefly studied sculpture in Cyprus with Asaf Ben Zvi. In 1952 he took part in the Likrat Review with Nathan Zach and David Avidan, a group devoted to Hebrew poetry.

A scholarship from the Norman Foundation in 1956 allowed him to study in Paris. He published his first artist's book, MICROCOSME, in 1965, and won the Prix de la critique for his engravings in 1966. His first literary work, DOSSIER SOLANGE, followed in 1967.

In 1986 he took up Digigraphie. In 1991 Roland Topor invited him to the last exhibition of the Panic Movement. He moved to Gleizé in France in 2007 and died on 4 February 2020.