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Israeli artist Yossi Stern puts finishing touches to a painting in his home.

Yossi Stern Paints
Jerusalem On Campus

GINNI WALSH

Special to The Jewish News

y

ossi Stern, with grey-
flecked hair, soft
green eyes and dress-
ed distinctively in baggy,
multi-pocketed pants he
designed himself, is one of
Israel's most prominent ar-
tists. Known for clinging to
the optimism that fired the
artists of the 1950s, his name
is linked to Jerusalem just as
Woody Allen's is to New York.
Almost lyrically he says, "If
you listen to the stones of
Jerusalem they will talk to
you. One says it is from
David's time . . . another says
that it is from the time of
Herod the Great. I have a
dialogue with them. They are
a part of me and I am a part
of them."
Mr. Stern lives in a
100-year-old, unheated, four-
room house on the edge of a
small hill that looks out
towards the Knesset. The
walls are dramatically
covered with his paintings,
the furnishings are sparse,
and everything from vases of
dried flowers to cigarettes and
brass ashtrays are carefully
arranged. Even the kitchen is
magazine-perfect, perhaps
because he only uses it to boil
water for coffee. Mr. Stern is
strongly attached to these
rooms which have sheltered
him since his student days, 50
years ago.
After arriving in Israel at
the age of 16 on the last il-
legal ship to leave Hungary,
Mr. Stern was sent to a
British military camp. After
six months he was put in
charge of the Youth Aliyah
program that helped, and still
helps, children in distress.
With the aid of Henrietta
Szold, he went on to study at
the Bezalel Academy of Arts

where he later returned to
teach for 35 years. "I have a
huge fmaily," he says; "all the
young artists who studied at
Bezalel. They are a blessing
from God."
But his own original fami-
ly, for whom he says he has
shed thousands of tears, all
perished in the Holocaust. In
1986 he returned to Hungary
as the first Israeli artist to ex-
hibit in that country. "It was
heartbreaking," he says. "All
the people I loved were dead."
Mr. Stern studied in London
and Paris and attempted liv-
ing in New York, but return-
ed to Israel within a very

He emphasizes
that he paints
modest-sized
paintings for a
modest country.

short time. Looking abashed,
he says, "I felt embarrassed
because I came back so fast,
but I'm too involved in the
fate of my people to live
anywhere else but Israel. All
my inspiration comes from
this tiny place."
Mr. Stern's paintings, in
fact, are widely exhibited in
Europe and the United States
and he has produced some 20
books of his work. He em-
phasizes that he paints
modest-sized paintings for a
modest country: "We don't
have powerful museums here
with a lot of money behind
them. There's no space for
large canvases and we don't
have wealthy organizations to
promote art."
Nonetheless, Mr. Stern has
watched Israeli art change
and become part of the revolu-
tion in international art. He
says, "In the 1950s what we