Itzchak Tarkay was born in 1935 in Subotica
on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border. At the end of the W.W.II, the Nazis sent
Tarkay, at the age of nine years old, to the Mathausen concentration camp.
He returned to his home after the war and developed an interest in art.
He won a prize for excellence in painting while still at school in Subotica. In 1949 he and his family immigrated to Israel.
The next two years were spent in a Kibbutz. In 1951, he received a scholarship
to the Bezalel Art Academy where he studied for one year. Tarkay has achieved international recognition
as a leading representative of a new generation of figurative artists.
His style clearly lies within French impressionism and has a rich and sensuous
palette executed in a tapestry-like effect. The vitality and flexibility
of ambiance as exemplified in Tarkay's work places him as one of the most
important new-classic artists in Europe today. After exhibiting both in Israel and abroad,
Tarkay received recognition at the International Art Expo in New York in
1986 and 1987 for works of oil, acrylic, watercolor and various graphic
mediums.
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