Yosl Bergner 'The Stranger, from The Kimberley Album' street art carries on his father’s legacy

carries on his father’s legacy with the vibrant ‘Hope

Image Size: 32 x 67 cm

with their son

reveling instead in an obliqueness

'Pastel Pyramid (Dark Orange Pyramid)'

Yosl Bergner 'The Stranger, from The Kimberley Album' street art carries on his father’s legacyThe 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