Artistic career Nachum Gutman
gutman s studio, nahum gutman museum of art
gutman helped pioneer distinctively israeli style, moving away european influences of teachers. worked in many different media: oils, watercolours, gouache , pen , ink.
his sculptures , brightly colored mosaics can seen in public places around tel aviv. indoor murals depicting history of tel aviv can seen in western wing of shalom tower , chief rabbinate building.
a mosaic fountain scenes days of tel aviv , biblical stories connected jaffa (inscribed 3 bible verses: jeremiah 31:4, 2 chronicles 2:16, jonah 1:3), stood 32 years @ end of bialik street, opposite old tel aviv municipality building. in 2012 mosaic fountain reinstalled @ southern end of rothschild boulevard.
gutman s artistic style eclectic, ranging figurative abstract. gutman well-known writer , illustrator of children s books.
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