Buky Schwartza.k.a. Moshé Schwartz
b. 16 June 1932 in Jerusalem (IL); d. 1 September 2009 in Tel Aviv (IL); Israeli sculptor and video artist
1956-1958 | Studied under the sculptor Itzhak Danziger at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv |
1959-1962 | Studied sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London |
1960 | Participated in the St. Margarethen Sculpture Symposium organized by Karl Prantl with other stone sculptors in Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland, Austria |
1961 | Participation in the first national sculpture symposium in Germany, the Kaisersteinbruch sculpture symposium in Gaubüttelbrunn, Lower Franconia |
October 1961 | Symposium of European Sculptors 1961–1963 (Wall Symposium in Berlin) with Herbert Baumann, Gerson Fehrenbach and Yasuo Mizui |
1960&1966 | Venice Biennale |
1963 | Return to Israel |
1971 | Move to New York |
1987 | documenta 8 in Kassel |
The artist lived and worked in Tel Aviv and New York until his death in 2009.