Oded Feingersh

The Israeli pop art artist Oded Feingersh is the grandson of the painter Meir Rosin who was the first sign painter and landscape painter in the Land of Israel and is also known as one of the first artists from the land who worked in Jerusalem already in the 19th century.

Oded was born in 1938, grew up and was educated in the Geula neighborhood with a strong affection for the country, for the Hebrew language, but most of all, for art. In 1963 he graduated from the Jerusalem Art School "Bezalel" where he studied with inspiring teachers such as Eisenscher, Aschheim, Jacob Pines and more. He mainly paints paintings that can be attributed to the realist movement, and the influence of the pop art movement is evident in them. But at the same time he is also A graduate of the Avshalom Institute for the Knowledge of the Land and his love for the landscape of the Land of Israel is greatly expressed in his works.

His trip to France in 1965 led him to join a group of Belgian anarchist artists, called "Mass Mobbing", but the Six Day War brought him back to Israel. But Feingersh returned to France and some time later, he was the first Israeli artist to receive the 'LEFRANC' prize for young artists.

Several years later and after his return to Israel, in 1975 Feingersh opened solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Herzliya Museum. The Dizengoff Art Prize was not long in coming and Feingersh received it in 1976.

In 2005, Feingersh concluded 40 years of painting in a special exhibition called "Retrospective" at the Givatayim Theater. He also wrote and published 13 books of poetry, Yediot Haaretz and more. He illustrated books and participated in dozens of personal and joint exhibitions in Israel and around the world. Oded Feingersh is considered one of the most senior contemporary painters living in my country and.