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The lecture “Saadia Bahat: Life and Art” of the Israeli sculptor Saadia Bahat took place in the Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish onthe 8th of May, 2012.Lecture-dialogue was organized in cooperation with the Embassy of Israel to Latvia and Lithuania.
Saadia Bahat (Bokšickis) was born in 1928, in Alytus, Lithuania. During the years of WWII he survived the Vilnius Ghetto and the several Nazi concentration camps. Bahat was among the first ones who left to Palestine right after the war and was fighting for the statehood of Israel in 1948. Choosing engineering as the main career, he was greatly interested in art all his life and was creating the exclusive sculptures. His works of art were awarded with the Hermann Struck (the establisher of Tel Aviv Museum of Art) Award and the other prizes, also were presented in the individual and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad (Japan, Austria, France, Italy, USA, Vietnam).
On the next day Bahat’s sculpture exhibition “After 69 Years” was opened at “Arka” art gallery. 69 years ago Bahat was expelled from Vilnius and had to survive the repressions of Holocaust. This year he comes back as the famous Israeli artist, who did not forget his Lithuanian roots. In his lecture at the Tolerance Center creator will tell about his art works and will present his individual abstract art sculptures. More |
Head of the Tolerence Centre Šadzevičienė present Sculptor Bahat
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Bahat‘s lecture
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 During the lecture
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Bahat (second from the left) with his family and professor Vėsaitė (first from the left)
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| | Modified: 8/20/2013 |
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