Painting 'Detachment' by Shlomo Koren

'Detachment' - artwork by Shlomo Koren (1932 - 2013). Mixed technique of paint, charcoal, textile. Shlomo Koren was an Israeli sculptor and painter. Koren was born in Cologne in 1932, but fled Germany with his parents in 1936. They settled in the British mandate of Palestine. He received his education at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem until 1959. The theme in his abstract and minimalist work is detachment. He himself feels a kinship with the work and themes of the sculptors Micha Ullman and Joel Shapiro. The artist traveled to Europe with his wife in 1960 and decided to stay in Amsterdam. In 2011 he took part in the international sculpture exhibition ArtZuid in Amsterdam with the work Hommage to the Architecture.