Raffi Kaiser: View of Acre Akko 1970s / Israeli French Jewish Modern Holy Land

Description: Raffi Kaiser born 1931, Jerusalem, Israel View of Acre (Akko), 1970s Original Hand-Signed Lithograph - the late 1970s Acre, known locally as Akko (Arabic: عكّا, ʻAkkā), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.Artist Name: Raffi Kaiser Title: View of Acre (Akko) Signature Description:Signed in pencil lower right Titled "Akko" lower middle, Approved lower left Technique: Lithograph Size: 44 x 62 cm / 17.32" x 24.41" inch Frame: Unframed Condition: Very good condition. Artist's Biography: Raffi Kaiser, painter and printmaker, born 1931, Jerusalem. Lives and works in Paris.“Raffi Kaiser has been living for 30 years between Europe, China, and Japan. Walking through the deserts and mountains, armed with his boxes, pencils and ink, he forges the Middle East, an exceptional heritage landscapes from traditional techniques from Japanese heritage. Monochrome sepia at the forefront carbon black India ink, the path is always clear, leaving plenty of room in the white empty space. His relationship with the landscape through concentration, silence and beauty.”Raffi Kaiser (b. 1931) was born in Jerusalem. He studied at the Bezalel Art and Design academy in Tel Aviv (1951), at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris (1952-1955), the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence (1955–1957) finishing his studies in Paris, in 1959. From 1960 to 1962, he lived in Tuscany where he studied the Renaissance masters. In 1962, Kaiser settled in Paris where he lives and works now. In 1967, Kaiser was chosen by the Museum of Modern Art in Paris as one of the top 15 young foreign artists in France. 1978-1980 Draws in the Israeli wilderness (Negev and Judea deserts). 1987 Six months' stay and travel throughout China creating works inspired by the monks of the Soung and Yuan periods (10th -13th centuries AD) which were subsequently exhibited in Paris in 1990. 1991 The first painter invited by the Nomura Cultural Foundation for a 12 months' stay in Japan. Travels throughout the Japanese mountains. 1992 Publication of "Livre des Roches et des Nuages" by the Government Printing Office; poems by Kenneth White, drawings by Raffi Kaiser. 1995-1997 Sojourn in Negev and Judea deserts - Israel.Kaiser works in ink, watercolor, tempera, pencil and mixed media. His exquisite landscape drawings document the memories of his 30 years of travels-- Chinese lands, volcanic Japanese regions, the Grand Canyon, Israel’s deserts. With no horizon or any reference to human scale, Kaiser drives the viewer to a primordial place, an imaginary journey. Education 1945-1948 studied at the Tel Aviv Academy and received first mention at the exhibition of the young Israeli painters. 1951 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem 1952-1955 Ecole Nationale Superior des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1955-1957 Fresco and painting, Art Academy of Florence, Florence, ItalyHe received a private scholarship to Paris by Mr. Federman and Yardnay Inter. Co. in 1957-1959.Awards and Prizes 1967 First Prize, Adolphe Neuman Contest 1967 Best Foreign Artist, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 1993 Received the French Foreign Affairs' scholarship - a three months' stay at Villa Kujoyama Kyoto, Japan.Raffi Kaiser has been drawing nature from memory for the last four decades. Nature he has wandered through himself. When he finds himself in the vastness of the Israeli deserts on his journeys, climbing the monumental mountain ranges of China or looking into the abyss of a crater in Japan, he too feels like a tiny part of nature and asks himself: “Qu’est-ce que l‘être humain par rapport à l’universe ?” (What is man when compared to the universe?) In this short sentence he expresses his reverence for nature – and not without pointing out how small humans are. The silent emptiness of the vast, intensively experienced natural spaces has left a mark on him: he unceasingly draws monochrome primal landscapes characterized by a sense of desertion. In doing so, he relies entirely on his hand, guided through the drawing process by his sense of composition and his memories. This automatic, intuitive process gives rise to landscape structures with a vague spatiality that eschew descriptive elements such as the sun, shadows, clouds. The laws of time and space are suspended in Kaiser’s world of landscapes, and they are also entirely devoid of human presence. Insight may lie in self-denial, a typically Japanese characteristic: In the case of Kaiser’s works, eschewing certain elements makes it possible to exclusively capture the inner structure of natural impressions. Kaiser’s drawings thus give rise to a type of atmosphere that is new in the Western history of landscape painting, namely one infused by reduction and emptiness. Thus, silence and emptiness, elementary characteristics of traditional East Asian ink painting, have also become essential components of Kaiser’s remembered landscapes. They lend his works a sublime, enigmatic character and enable us to “fill” his drawings in our mind as we look at them. The “blank spaces” in the landscapes, which we are often unable to find rational explanations for as we contemplate them (are they fog, bodies of water or clouds?) are also traces of his own speechless wonder in face of the incredible scenes of nature he has witnessed. Yet religious feelings are alien to the artist, he does not understand nature as God’s creation, but simply as a self-contained secret. When Kaiser picks up ink and quill, he thus wants to transcend the mere outward experiences of the landscapes he has witnessed. He wants to trace the universal unity of nature as he has himself experienced it in the process of drawing and get a little closer to its innermost interrelationships. Drawing nature, be it large landscape spaces or individual, singled out moments, is an inner necessity for Raffi Kaiser. The fact that he essentially also sees this practice as a means of meditation, enabling him to tread questioning philosophical paths without words, positions the Western artist’s way of thinking close to that of the Far East and Japanese art. Pauline DrichelBiographical Notes 1960-1962 Lives in Toscany, studies Italian Medieval and Renaissance art. 1962 Moves to Paris. 1967 First prize winner - Adolphe Neuman contest. Winner of the "Best Foreign Artist" contest Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. 1968 Individual exhibition - Galerie 44, Brussels. Individual exhibition - Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv. 1969 Five Israeli Artists at Saginawa Museum Michigan, USA. 1970 The International Biennial of Bradford, Great-Britain. 1972 Individual exhibition - Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Participates in "Les Fantastiques Contemporains" - Galerie Gaubert, Paris. 1975 International Fair of Basel, Switzerland. Individual exhibition - Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel. Group exhibition - Galerie Liliane François, Paris. 1976 " Espaces insolites" - exhibition - Palais des Congrès, Strasbourg, France. First Art Critics' Fair - Paris-La Défense. 1977 Israeli Perspective - Grand Palais, Paris. Individual exhibition - Aberbach Fine Art, New-York. 1978 Individual exhibition - Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel. Participates in the Israeli Art Festival - Ottawa, Canada. 1978--1980 Draws in the Israeli wilderness (Negev and Judea deserts). 1979 Israeli Art Festival - Berlin, Germany. 1980 Individual exhibition - Galerie Noir, Paris. 1982 Publication of "Espaces et Esprit d'Israel" edited by Images publishers, lithographies by Raff Kaiser. 1985 Individual exhibition - Galerie de France, Paris. Individual exhibition - Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany. Individual exhibition - De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands. 1986 The International Fair of Basel Individual exhibition - Goldman Gallery, Haifa. 1987 Six months' stay and travel throughout the Popular Republic of China, following the steps of the artists of the Soung and Yuan periods (10th -13th centuries AD). 1988 Individual exhibition - Stuttgart town-hall, Stuttgart, Germany. 1990 Individual exhibition - Musée Guimet, Paris. Individual exhibition - Galerie Heyram - Mabel Semmler, Paris. Preparation of a rare publication at the Government Printing Office. 1991 (29/9/91-03/11/91) Individual exhibition - Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany. 1991 The first painter invited by the Nomura Cultural Foundation for a 12 months' stay in Japan. Travels throughout the Japanese mountains. 1992 Publication of "Livre des Roches et des Nuages" by the Government Printing Office; poems by Kenneth White, drawings by Raffi Kaiser. 1993 Obtains the French Foreign Affairs' scholarship - a three months' stay at Villa Kujoyama Kyoto, Japan. 1994 Group exhibition - Galerie de l'Etoile- Mabel Semmier, Paris. Participates in the reopening activities of Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany. 1995-1997 Sejourns in Negev and Judea deserts - Israel. 1997 Individual exhibition - Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris. 1998 individual exhibition - De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands. 1999 Individual exhibition - Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, Germany. Individual exhibition - Galerie "Espace Furstemberg" Mabel Semmler, Paris. 2000 Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Nijgata Prefecture, Japan. 2001 Individual exhibition - Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg (Katalog) 2003 Individual exhibition - Galleria del Leone, Venice 2006 Individual exhibition - Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt Raffi Kaiser „Paravents“ Individual exhibition - Raffi Kaiser „Premordiel Landscapes“ Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt2007 “Portraits d’arbres”, Gallery Friedrich Müller, Francfort/Main, Germany, solo show “Japan and the West", Wolfsburg Contemporary art museum, Germany, group show Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris with Galleria del Leone 2008 Morat Institute, Friburg im Breisgau, Germany, Raffi Kaiser / Alain-Pierre Jacquet “Espaces vides”, gallery Claudia Delank, Köln, Germany, solo show 2009 Gallery Friedrich Müller, Francfort/Main, Raffi Kaiser / Alain-Pierre Jacquet 2011 Gallery Friedrich Müller, Francfort/Main, Germany “Paysages”, solo show 2012 “The Journey of the Journeys”, Morat Institute, Friburg im Breisgau, Germany, solo show Salon de l’Estampe et du Dessin, Paris with Galleria del Leone Gallery Friedrich Müller, Francfort/Main, solo show 2013 "La Forme est vide, le vide est forme", Galerie Michèle Broutta, Paris, solo show.Selected Solo Exhibitions1968 Galerie 44, Brussels Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv 1972 Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv 1975 Goldman Gallery, Haifa 1977 Aberbach Fine Art, New-York 1978 Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel 1980 Galerie Noir, Paris 1985 Galerie de France, Paris Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands 1986 The International Fair of Basel Goldman Gallery, Haifa 1988 Stuttgart town-hall, Stuttgart, Germany 1990 Musée Guimet, Paris Galerie Heyram - Mabel Semmler, Paris 1991 Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany 1997 Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris 1998 De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands 1999 Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, Germany Galerie "Espace Furstemberg" Mabel Semmler, Paris 2001 Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg (Katalog) 2003 Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy 2006 Raffi Kaiser - “Paravents”, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt Raffi Kaiser - “Premordiel Landscapes”, Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt Selected Group Exhibitions1969 Five Israeli Artists at Saginawa Museum Michigan, USA 1970 The International Biennial of Bradford, Great-Britain 1972 Participates in "Les Fantastiques Contemporains" - Galerie Gaubert, Paris 1975 International Fair of Basel, Switzerland 1975 Galerie Liliane François, Paris 1976 "Espaces insolites" - Palais des Congrès, Strasbourg, France First Art Critics' Fair - Paris-La Défense Chess in Art, Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa 1977 Israeli Perspective - Grand Palais, Paris 1978 Participates in the Israeli Art Festival - Ottawa, Canada 1979 Israeli Art Festival - Berlin, Germany The Kadishman Connection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1981 Trends in Israeli Art 1970-1980, International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland 1982 Textiles, The Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem 1983 Landscapes, Traveling Exhibition, Israel 1994 Galerie de l'Etoile- Mabel Semmier, Paris Participates in the reopening activities of Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany 2000 Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Nijgata Prefecture, Japan 2006 The Art Gallery, University of Haifa, Israel 2019 Good news! The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva, Israel.Additional Information:Acre, known locally as Akko (Arabic: عكّا, ʻAkkā), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.The city occupies a strategic location, sitting in a natural harbour at the extremity of Haifa Bay on the coast of the Mediterranean's Levantine Sea. Aside from coastal trading, it was an important waypoint on the region's coastal road and the road cutting inland along the Jezreel Valley. The first settlement during the Early Bronze Age was abandoned after a few centuries but a large town was established during the Middle Bronze Age.[4] Continuously inhabited since then, it is among the oldest continuously inhabited settlements on Earth. It has, however, been subject to conquest and destruction several times and survived as little more than a large village for centuries at a time. Acre was a hugely important city during the Crusades as a maritime foothold on the Mediterranean coast of the southern Levant and was the site of several battles, including the 1189–1191 Siege of Acre and 1291 Siege of Acre. It was the last stronghold of the Crusaders in the Holy Land prior to that final battle in 1291. At the end of Crusader rule, the city was destroyed by the Mamluks, thereafter existing as a modest fishing village until the rule of Zahir al-Umar in the 18th century. Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard), Bank Cheque. If you wish to send a personal cheque, please note that the item will not be shipped until the cheque clears.Shipping&Handling: All items are sent through registered mail or by E.M.S. Fast delivery service (up to 4-5 business days), depends on the weight and measures of the purchased item. You may add insurance for the item with an additional fee. Please e-mail us for other shipping methods. 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