Yosl Bergner 'The Impresario, from The Kimberley Album' expressionism which recalls a tarot card

which recalls a tarot card

'The Interior' 1966

an anonymous hand reaching from its core

reminiscent of the power lines that link and light up houses

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Yosl Bergner 'The Impresario, from The Kimberley Album' expressionism which recalls a tarot cardThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this