Shaar Pinchas

Pinchas Shaar was a Polish painter, born in Lodz/Poland in 1923 and died in Israel in 1996. He exhibited for the first time when he was 16 years old. In 1944 he ended up in a concentration camp. Afterwards he found an outlet for his pent-up powerlessness and anger in his painting. After a stay in Munich he moved to Paris, where he found his own design and style. In 1953 he came into contact with the closed world of the Jewish community in Israel, with its own symbolism, based on age-old values and themes. The design appears optimistic, monumental and highly stylized. From the press: “The art of P.S. is a cheerful art that tries to make people happy, an art that invites us to participate in an exuberant party full of beautiful colors in which people play the leading role.” Isy Brachot gallery in Brussels in 1967. He is mentioned in Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)