Background
Moi Ver (Moshe Raviv) was born in 1904 in Vilnius, Lithuania as Moses Vorobeichic.
Moi Ver (Moshe Raviv) was born in 1904 in Vilnius, Lithuania as Moses Vorobeichic.
Graduated from the first Hebrew Gymnasium in the Diaspora
Art and architecture, Vilna University
1928 Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Josef Albers
1930 Ecole Photo One, Paris, photography.
In his early 20s he matriculated at the Bauhaus, taking courses with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Josef Albers, and left from there to attend the Ecole Photo One in Paris. In his book Moi Ver: Paris, he produced avant-garde photomontages. Originally published in 1931 by Editions Jeanne Walter with an introduction by Futurist Fernand Léger.
In 1932 Raviv was sent by the weekly Vie to Palestine as photo-reporter.
Raviv illustrated many books Moshe Raviv-Vorobeichic (as he called himself in Israel) focus more on painting than photography and lived in Safed until his death in 1995.
He adopted Zionism in 1934 and immigrated to what was then known as Palestine.