Tuvia Beeri
Tuvia Beeri was born in 1929 in Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia (today Slovakia). During World War II he fled from a march headed toward the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, and eventually ended up in Budapest. After Hungary was liberated by the Red Army, he was in forced labor camp, where his left hand was injured. After completing his art studies in Israel, Beeri traveled to Paris where he studied etching with Johnny Friedlaender and at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1963 he returned to Israel and taught at Bezalel. In 1964 he founded an etching workshop at the Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv, and in 1965 he founded the print workshop at the Tel Aviv Artists’ House. That same year, he co-founded the group Ten+, but soon withdrew from its activity. During 1970-1971 Beeri founded a print workshop at La Cité, Paris. His works are comprised mostly of prints. He uses engraving, etching, and aquatint in his works, which include cosmological images and abstract geometrical landscapes.
Education
1957 Oranim Art Institute, Tivon, with Marcel Janco and Yaakov Wexler
1961-1959 Painting and Printmaking with Yaacov Wexler
1961-1963 Etching with Johnny Friedlander, Paris, France
1961-1963 Beaux Arts, Paris, France
Awards And Prizes (selection)
1972 Gold Medal, Biennale, Florence, Italy
1982 Bible Museum Prize, Bible House, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1990 Honorary Medal, Interprint Exhibition, Lvov, USSR
2001 The Eli Osherov Painters and Sculptors Association Prize
Solo exhibition (selection in the field of print)
1961Katz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1965 Paintings and Etchings, Dugith Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1966 Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
1969 Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1973 Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1976 Beeri – Etchings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art,Tel Aviv-Yafo
1981 Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1982 Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1982 Aquarelle und Radierungen, Galerie Heimshoff, Essen, Germany
1986 New Etchings and Aquatints, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1987 Etchings, Hamishkan Le’omanut, Beth Meirov, Holon
1987 Etchings, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1990 Tuvia Beeri, Galerie Saint Jean, Chalon sur Saone, France
1991 Etchings – Aquatints, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1992 Etchings, The Bar David Museum for Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Bara’am
1992 Radierungen, Galerie Kollbrunner, Bern, Switzerland
1993 Etchings in Small Format, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1996 Etchings 1992-1995, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2000 Copper Etchings, The David Yellin Hebrew Teachers’ Institute, Jerusalem
2007 Small Works, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2008 Tuvia Beeri: Unity in Multiplicity, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
Group exhibition (selection in the field of print)
1967 The First Exhibition of Israeli Graphic-Art, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
1973 Graphic Art in Israel Today, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1975 Graphic Art 25, Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1979 The Israeli Grafotec, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1982 The Print Art in Israel, Omanot Laam, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1983 Contemporary Graphic-Art in Israel, Mounting Exhibition, USA
1986 Neve Tzedek Art Center, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1991 Back to Painting in Israeli Prints, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2005 The Art of Printing, Haifa Artists’ House, Haifa
2007 On Paper: Prints by Israeli Artists, Ashdod Art Museum
