Education
Painting under Arie Rothman
1958-1960 Academy of Fine Arts, Florence
1961 Study Tour to Seville and Madrid, Spain, and London
1969 Study Tour to Europe and United States.A.
Painting under Arie Rothman
1958-1960 Academy of Fine Arts, Florence
1961 Study Tour to Seville and Madrid, Spain, and London
1969 Study Tour to Europe and United States.A.
Born in Burgas, Bulgaria, he immigrated to Israel in 1949, where he lived in Ein Hamifratz, a kibbutz near Haifa. Avraham Ofek"s early paintings contained portrayals of landscape that were at once lyrical and rugged. Later in his career, most depictions of the landscape appeared as undefined and receded into the background.
Near the end of his life, however, the actual landscape of Jerusalem returned to assume an important role in Ofek"s work, this time embodied in images that reflect the loss and despair that engulfed the artist.
Many of Ofek"s landscapes are laden with a sense of alienation and solitude, as well as nostalgia for the city of his birth, Sofia. His murals can be seen across Israel, notably at Kfar Uria and the Central Post Office Building (Jerusalem).
His sculpture "The Binding of Isaac" is on view at the entrance to Safra Square. In 1989 the Jerusalem Print Workshop issued a collection of reproductions of his prints edited by Uri Katz, with commentary in Hebrew and English.
1965-1975 Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem 1975 Head of the Art Department, Television, Jerusalem 1978-1981 Art Department, Haifa University 1984-1990 Professor, Art Department, Haifa University 1970 Mural, Beit Haam, Kfar Uria 1972 Mural, Central Post Office, Jerusalem 1973 Mural, Agron School, Jerusalem 1974 "Mountains round about Jerusalem", Mural, Stone School, Jerusalem 1976 "Return to Zion" Mural, Tel Aviv University Library, Tel Aviv 1982 Hailek Ben Shachar, stone sculpture, Gan Harakevet, Arlozorof Street, Tel Aviv-Yaffo 1986 Binding of Isaac, Safra Square, Jerusalem 1986 Homage to Asher, 1966 stone sculpture, Tefen Open University, Tefen 1986-1987 Israel, a shattered dream, Mural, Haifa University, Haifa 1987 Stone sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2000 "סלע קיומנו" or Binding of Isaac (1986), stone sculpture, Gan Daniel,Safra Square, Jerusalem (originally exhibited in Herzelia).