Yosl Bergner 'The Impresario, from The Kimberley Album' expressionism connected with a stream of

connected with a stream of tea

speckles of forest twinkling in the distance

'The Interior' 1966

reminiscent of the power lines that link and light up houses

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Yosl Bergner 'The Impresario, from The Kimberley Album' expressionism connected with a stream ofThe 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