Exhibitions

Ze'ev (Wilhelm) Aleksandrowicz was born in Cracow in 1905, the only son of well-established family of paper merchants.In his childhood he received a sound Jewish and Zionist education, and his first camera was a gift from his aunt.

Seishiro Jay Tomioka creates digital images which he then manipulates by means of the computer programme "Photoshop".

The fan is an important accessory in the Japanese culture.

In its broadest sense, the Japanese word "kimono" means "clothing", and it is usually applied to the traditional and specific garment which is the national dress of Japan, shaped like a T, with rectangular sleeves, which is wrapped around the body.

The contemporary artist Kumagai Masa creates installations out of handmade Japanese paper.

When the gates of Japan were opened to the Western world at the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, a new era of modernization and industrialization began, bringing with it many political, economic, and cultural changes.

It was ten years ago that I first encountered the works of the artist Noriko Yanagisawa. That was when we were planning her first exhibition at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa, Israel.

A Japanese fable relates that while out hunting Prince Yamato Takeru was enchanted by the beauty of the trees in their autumn glory.

The exhibition comprises two unusual types of Japanese print - the triptych and the hashira-e (pillar print).

The early years (1893-1918)
"I was born on Columbus Day, October 12, 1893, an excellent wine year, in the fortress and garrison town of Glogau on the Oder River in Silesia (now Poland) [...]