Ivan Schwebel (1932-2011)

Ivan Schwebel was born in 1932 in West Virginia, United States, to a Jewish-Orthodox family. In 1963 he immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. Though he worked also in screenprint, most of his prints were in the field of etching. His works combined realistic depictions of the Israeli urban landscape and figurative imagery based on biblical iconography. His etchings often served as a base for oil painting. His works can be found among the collections of the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and many others.

Education
1953 Painting with Kimura Kyoen ,Kyoto, Japan
1956-1960 History of art, New York University, NYC, USA

Solo Exhibitions (selection)
1969 Schwebel – Eleven Paintings, Mabat Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1971 Ivan Schwebel: Artist in Studio, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1973 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1974 Paintings – Drawings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv
1977 From the Mann Auditorium Walls, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1984 Paintings on Etchings, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1989 Schwebel: Jerusalem – Tel Aviv, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
1994 Seasons in the Judean Hills, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
2010 The Inescapable, The Bar David Museum for Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Bara’am

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1979 The Israeli Grafotec, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1981 Process and Print:An Exhibition of Working Proofs, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1986 Landscape and Nature: Contemporary Israeli Prints from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, High Court of Australia, Canberra, Australia
1993 Homage to the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1994 Gottesman Etching Center, Cabri
1994 Three Artists – Etching, Kibbutz Eilon Gallery
1994 The Printer’s Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2001 Drawing Aspects in Print, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2014 Workshop Myth: Four Decades. Body, Place, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2015 Gottesman Etching Center, Cabri
2018 Dialogue: Sidon Rothenberg and the Print Workshop Artists, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem