ARTS
11 10 2006

Vernissage Zwy Milshtein

Angélus exhibits works of expressionist painter Zwy Milshtein on 10th November 2006.   


Zwy Milshtein was born in the Moldavian city of Chișinău in 1934. It was Rumanian at the time, but fell under Soviet control in 1944. From 1943 to 1944, he studied painting at the Young Pioneer Palace of Tiflis in Georgia, then in Bucharest in 1946 under the supervision of painter George Ștefănescu. Milshtein left for Israel in 1947 with his brother and mother, then in Cyprus he studied sculpture with Ben Tsvi. In 1948, in Israel, he studied with painters Raitler, Avni, Ardon and Mokady. Until 1956, he lived with Yochewed Kashi, the first woman parachutist in Israel. They have a son, Oury Milshtein, who was born in Paris in 1957. In 1956, he received a grant from the Norman Foundation, which enabled him to travel to Paris, where he stayed for many years. Since 2007, Milshtein has lived and maintained his workshop in Gleizé in the Rhone area north of Lyons.