Osias Hofstatter (1905-1994)
Osias Hofstatter was born in 1905 in Bochnia, Galitzia. He lived in Vienna during 1920-1938, where he worked as an accountant and a merchant. After Austria was annexed into Germany, he fled to Belgium. During World War II he was captivated in the San Siberian concentration camp. In 1942 he fled to Switzerland, and in 1948 moved to Warsaw, where he taught Jewish orphans and worked as an illustrator and graphic designer for a youth magazine. In 1957 he immigrated to Israel and worked as a night guard. From 1970 onward he dedicated his time to art.
Education
1942 Municipal Art School, Zurich
1946 Art Academy in Vienna, Austria
Awards And Prizes
1963 Municipality of Holon Prize, Holon
1968 Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture
1976 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo
1981 Worthy Citizen of Ramat Gan Award
1991 Bank Discount Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1991 Sussman Prize for Artists Depicting the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
1991 Danziger Prize, Jerusalem
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
1958 Katz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1960 Drawings, Ghetto Fighters’ House, Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot
1966 Dugith Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1968 Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
1968 Osias Hofstatter: Drawings, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1980 Mabat Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1986 Retrospective Exhibition of Osaias Hofstatter in Celebration of His 80th Birthday, Herzliya Museum of Art, Yad-Labanim, Herzliya
1989 Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1990 Osias Hofstatter: Masterpieces from the Artist’s Collection, Herzliya Museum, Herzliya
2007 41 Works on Paper, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod
2017 Osias Hofstaeter – Two Faced, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2020 Painting-Creature, Herzliya Museum, Herzliya
Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1965 Graphic Works by Contemporary Israeli artists – New Acquisitions, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1979 The Israeli Grafotec, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1985 Black Prints, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1994 The Printer’s Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2008 Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 Lithography Notebook: A tribute to Israel Hirshfeld, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
