Samuel Tepler (1918-1998), Still life with red kettle

Oil/canvas, 34.5 x 53 cm Signed (in Hebrew) l.d.: 'Tepler'

Samuel Tepler came from a traditional Jewish family. From 1937 he studied at the Stefan Batory University in Vilna. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the studio of Prof. Ludomir Sleńdzinski; his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II and deportation to Uzbekistan. Starting in 1945, he began studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan under Aldo Salvadori. After a solo exhibition in Milan in 1949, Tepler emigrated to the newly formed state of Israel. He settled in Tel Aviv, where he co-organized the city's artistic life.