{{Short description|Israeli painter (1918–2009)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Shrage Weil<br />שרגא ווייל | image = Shraga weil.jpg | image_size =250px | caption = | birth_name = František Ferdinand Weil | birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|09|24|mf=y}} | birth_place = Nyitra, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|02|20|1918|09|24}} | death_place = Israel | field = Painting, Graphics, Printmaking | training = Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris | movement = Modern | works = | patrons = | awards = Dizengoff Prize (1959) }} '''Shraga Weil''' ({{langx|he|שרגא ווייל}}; September 24, 1918 – February 20, 2009) was an Israeli painter.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Shraga Weil |url=https://museum.imj.org.il/artcenter/newsite/en/?artist=Weil,%20Shraga&list=W |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=museum.imj.org.il}}</ref>
==Biography== Weil was born as '''František Ferdinand Weil''' in Nyitra, Austria-Hungary (today Nitra, Slovakia) in 1918 to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants.<ref name=":0" /> His father was a building engineer. He was sent to study with a local sculptor, and then to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He produced his first graphic works during World War II, during which he spent as a prisoner. After the War, he sailed for Mandatory Palestine on an illegal immigrant ship. He arrived in Mandatory Palestine in 1947 and became a member of Kibbutz HaOgen, where he lived until his death.<ref name=":0" />
In 1954, he studied murals and graphic techniques at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He also studied mosaics in Ravenna with Professor Severini.
Weil died on February 20, 2009.
==Work== Weil's works have been exhibited in the United States, South America, Canada, Australia, France, Slovakia, the USSR, Switzerland, and in the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, in Lugano.
His style was influence by socialist art, which according to the Israel Museum was more widely embraced by the Kibbutz movement.<ref name=":0" /> His work includes the door of the Israeli president's residence as well as ceramic reliefs at Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue.<ref name=":0" />
Weil's artwork is in the permanent collections of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum, Jewish Museum, New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Joslyn Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA, as well as others.
==Awards== In 1959, Weil was awarded the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.<ref name=Dizengoff>{{cite web|url=http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Hebrew/_MultimediaServer/Documents/12516742.pdf |title=List of Dizengoff Prize laureates |publisher=Tel Aviv Municipality |language=Hebrew |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217141815/http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Hebrew/_MultimediaServer/Documents/12516742.pdf |archivedate=December 17, 2007 }}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> Art_gallery_tlv_058.JPG|Ceramic Relief at the Tel-Aviv's Great Synagogue. PikiWiki_Israel_21561_Doors_of_the_Knesset.JPG|Door at the Knesset </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * ''Twelve Israeli Painters'', Published by Lion the Printer, Tel Aviv, 1965 * "Shraga Weil - 60 years of Printmaking", Gideon Ofrat, Safrai Fine Art Gallery Jerusalem, 2000, 148 pages
== External links == * [https://www.knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/weil_shr_eng.htm Short biography for Shraga Weil] Knesset website {{in lang|en}} * [https://shragaweil.com Official website of Shraga Weil ] official website {{Authority control}}
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