Aharon Gluska

Israeli–American painter (born 1951)

Aharon Gluska
Born	1951 Hadera, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Education	Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Israel
Known for	Painting
Website	www.agluska.com

Aharon Gluska (born 1951) is an Israeli–American painter.

Early life

Gluska was born in 1951 in Hadera, Israel. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv.

Grants

Gluska received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Awards

Gluska was one of two winners of the 1996 Zussman Prize for artists dealing with the Holocaust, from the Yad Vashem museum, for his paintings of prisoners at Auschwitz based on photographs of them taken by their Nazi guards.^[1]^[2]

Public collections

Gluska's art is displayed in the following locations:

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
Jewish Museum, New York City, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York^[3]
Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Cornell University Museum, Ithaca, New York^{[clarification needed]}
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey

References

^ "Gluska, Kupferman win Yad Vashem art prizes", Jerusalem Post, November 28, 1996, archived from the original on April 9, 2016
^ "Artists of the Holocaust Awarded Zussman Prize", Israel Faxx, December 16, 1996, archived from the original on April 9, 2016
^ "Aharon Gluska". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-08-15.