Nahum GUTMAN
1898–1980, Romania/Israel
Also known as: Nachum Gutman
Biography
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Nachum Gutman (alternate romanization: Nahum Gutman; Hebrew: נחום גוטמן: born October 5, 1898, died November 28, 1980) was a Russian-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author.
==Biograp Nachum Gutman was hy==bornTeleneşti]], Bessarabia Governorate (Moldova), then a part of the Russian Empire. He was the fourth child of Alter and Rivka Gutman. His father was a Hebrew writer and educator who wrote under the pen name S. Ben Zion. In 1903, the family moved to Odessa, and two years later, to Ottoman Palestine. In 1908, Gutman attended the Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. In 1912, he studied at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem. In 1920–26, he studied art in Vienna, Berlin and Paris.
Gutman was married to Dora, with whom he had a son. After Gutman's death in 1980, Dora asked two Tel Aviv gallery owners, Meir Stern of Stern Gallery and Miriam Tawin of Shulamit Gallery, to appraise the value all of the works left in his estate.[1]
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