Background

Aharon April was born in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania on June 6, 1932, in a family of pharmacists Isaac April and Toiba Yankelzon. Childhood and adolescence spent in Siberia due to the deportation of Jewish families in the USSR.

Education

In 1947 Aharon April ended middle school in Yakutsk with a gold medal. In 1948 entered the Moscow Art School in Memory of 1905 (now Moscow Academic Art College memory of 1905), but after a year and a half was forced to leave. In Yakutsk, he graduated from art school and also attended a 4-year historical course in a local pedagogical institute. In 1960 April he graduated from the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts (now the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow).

Career

From 1958 till 1972, Aharon April took part in many national and international exhibitions. His first solo exhibition "Behind the Seven Seas" took place in Moscow in 1971.

After immigration to Israel Aharon April held personal exhibitions in Israel, North America, Germany, Switzerland, France, etc. In 1986-1998 worked for different periods of time in Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Works

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• painting

  • the Winds of Fate

    (dyptich)

    2003

  • In Heavens and on Earth

    (dyptich)

    1997

  • On the outskirts of Jerusalem

    1980

  • Spring Illumination

    1993

  • Flowers on white

    2003

  • The Rape of Europe

    1987

  • Alarm

    1995

  • The Native Souls

    2003

  • Excitement

    1970

  • Song of Songs (4,12)

    1983

  • Song of Songs (5,1)

    1994

  • The rhythms of our street

    1993

• sculpture

  • sculpture

    1996

  • sculpture

    1997

  • sculpture

    1997

Membership

Aharon April was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. From 1975-1976 he was the Chairman of the Jerusalem artists and sculptors association. In 2005 was elected as an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.

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  Honorary member

  Russian Academy of Arts , Russian Federation

  2005

• Artists' Union of the USSR

  1961

• Chairman

  Jerusalem artists and sculptors association , Israel

  1975 - 1976

Connections

Aharon April was married to Ilana Zhezmir and had a son, Itzhak.

Father:

Isaac April

Mother:

Toiba Yankelzon

Spouse:

Ilana Zhezmir

Son:

Itzhak April