DESCRIPTION: Artist Benjamin Shiff has created an interesting view of Jerusalem through a window. The window panes are angled open giving the artwork a three dimensional look and a feeling of depth. The contrast of the wood frame around each pane against the soft landscape of Jerusalem is startling. This is a beautiful and well done Serigraph which looks absolutely magnificent framed up properly!

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: Benjamin Shiff has been described as the embodiment of an Israeli Patriot. Born in Cologne, Germany in 1931, he immigrated to Israel in 1933. At the age of fourteen he left home and went to live on a Kibbutz. At sixteen, he joined the Palmach and fought in the battle for Jerusalem during the War of Independence. He continued on to a long and distinguished career in the military and government, devoting his life to his country.

The path Shiff took to develop as an artist is most unusual. He started painting at the age of forty. Someone surprised him with a birthday present of brushes, a few paints, and a small bottle of linseed oil. Since then painting has been the center of his world. At the age of forty-five he traveled to Austria to study the Old Master Technique. combining oil and tempera, which was used mainly during this century by the fantastic realism of the Viennese. At fifty he enrolled at Bar-Ilan University and received a B.A. degree in Philosophy. His paintings started covering subjects in Kabala, Hassidut and Jewish Philosophy.


Shiffs work is figurative with a tendency towards cubism. His paintings entice the observer to try to expose the hidden secrets on the canvas and to deal with the eternal questions of destiny and personal fate, Jewish and Universal. The effect and transparency that he achieves in his paintings reflect the Jewish world of mysticism.

As an artist of stature and a published author of three poetry books, Benjamin Shiff has found the means to express his enormously creative soul. A book of prose is due for publication shortly.

Shiff's artwork has been exhibited extensively in Europe, Israel, South America and the United States.