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The artist lived in Paris throughout the 1950s, moving to New York, NY in 1965 where he met and was influenced by Abstract Expressionist painters.
Printmaker, painter, sculptor and collage artist Nissan Engel was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1931.
Artist, innovator, poet, musician, Nissan Engel is born in Israel in 1931.

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Printmaker, painter, sculptor and collage artist Nissan Engel was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1931. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts Bezalel in Jerusalem in 1956, where he studied painting, printmaking, and design, and in 1957 he studied stage and costume design at Centre Dramatique de l’Est, in Strasbourg, France. He began exhibiting in 1958, at Landwelin Gallery and Andre Weil Gallery, and in 1965 he moved to New York City. He remained in the U.S. for nearly a decade, before returning to France, where he settled in Paris in 1975. Engel died on November 3, 2016.

Engel exhibited widely, throughout the United States and abroad, including: Los Robles Gallery, California, USA (1966); Riebenfield Gallery, Israel (1970); Lim Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (1972); International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland (1975); Vinciana Gallery, Italy (1977); Art Expo New York (1981); Lincoln Center, New York (1985); Meissner Gallery, Hamburg (1989), Nahan Galleries, New York (1990); Glerie l’Estampe, Strasbourg, France (1995); John Davies Gallery, London (1996), among many other

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NISSAN ENGEL

Nissan Engel (1931–2016): Master of Abstract Lyricism

Nissan Engel, a visionary artist known for his distinctive fusion of music and visual art, was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1931. From an early age, he displayed an innate passion for painting, which led him to pursue formal training at the prestigious Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem. Furthering his artistic education, he studied theater set and costume design at the Centre Dramatique de l’Est in Strasbourg, France, gaining a deep understanding of composition, texture, and spatial harmony—elements that would later define his unique artistic style.

Engel’s journey took him across continents in search of artistic expression. In 1965, he moved to New York, where he lived for a decade before settling in Paris in 1975. His transition into collage art was sparked by a commission to create stained-glass windows in New York and Maryland. The experience deeply influenced his approach, inspiring him to build his compositions with intense blocks of color, layered textures, and abstract shapes, much

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