page_title: Zvi Malnovitzer
section_title: Scenes from Daily Life
hierarchical_section_title: Zvi Malnovitzer / Art / Themes / Scenes from Daily Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Soap kitchen 2001
context_page_description: Zvi Malnovitzer is an expressionist painter born to a Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, religious family in Bnei Brak, Israel. His upbringing in a society isolated from the modern world, where he was dedicated to intensive and uninterrupted Talmudic study from a young age, makes his decision to become an artist unusual, bold, and one of accomplishment.
  During his training in Reichenau, Austria, where he studied under the auspices of artist Wolfgang Manner and under the direction of Ernst Fuchs, Malnvotizer developed a unique style portraying themes that straddle the religious and secular worlds.
  While Malnovitzer's work is inspired by the prolific portraits of Rembrandt van Rijn and the Romanticism of Francisco de Goya, his style is unique in that it combines European Expressionism with traditional and religious themes. The way he paints is reflective of the way he lives his life - by embracing modern ideas while continuing to preserve his religious traditions. The subjects in his paintings are diverse, ranging from rabbis, to Holocaust survivors, to patrons at coffee shops.
context_section_description: The first painting that Malnovitzer sold in his exhibition in Japan was a portrait of a rabbi smoking a cigar. "At first, I didn't understand why the Japanese man identified with the rabbi". He proceeded to ask the patron what he saw in the face of the figure, and he replied, "there is something universal about the face, and about the human experience in general".
  Malnovitzer often paints scenes from daily life – both Jewish and gentile. The places and characters of his paintings seem ordinary – strangers at coffee shops, homeless men at soup kitchens, and drunks at bars. The expression on their faces, however, hold back extraordinary stories that are more than what meets the eye.
caption: Soup Kitchen (2001) by Zvi Malnovitzer
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