Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones This screenprint demonstrates Amor’s mind

This screenprint demonstrates Amor’s mind at work: his understanding of atmosphere

Image Size: 42 x 31 cm

signed with initials and dated lower right: PRAHRAN MH 15/9/85

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Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones This screenprint demonstrates Amor’s mindThe 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