Shlomo Koren

Shlomo Koren

 

Shlomo Koren is an Israelian sculptor and painter. Koren was born in Keulen in 1932. He left Germany with his parents in 1936 for Palestine. Shlomo Koren studied at the 'Bezalel Kunstacademie' in Jeruzalem starting in 1959.

 

Shlomo Koren felt a strong connection with the work of the sculptors Joel Shapiro and Micha Ullman. Strong abstract minimalistic work, material art, using mixed media.

 

Shlomo Koren has been living in Amsterdam since the sixties, and  was a teacher at the Amsterdam 'Rietveld Academie'.