Yosl Bergner 'From Alice Springs to the Kimberleys, from The Kimberley Album' black & white Namibia ' 2011

Namibia ' 2011

Dimensions: 820 x 112 cm

rhythm and tonal subtlety

Dimensions: 25 x 30 x 3 cm

'Naomi' 2006

Yosl Bergner 'From Alice Springs to the Kimberleys, from The Kimberley Album' black & white Namibia ' 2011The story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this