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Moldovan-born Israeli artist (1898–1980)

Nachum Gutman (as he himself signed;^[1] alternate romanisation: Nahum Gutman; Hebrew: נחום גוטמן: October 5, 1898 – November 28, 1980) was a Moldovan-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author.

Biography

Nachum Gutman was born in Teleneşti, Bessarabia Governorate, then a part of the Russian Empire (now in the Republic of Moldova). He was the fourth child of Sim[c]ha Alter and Rivka Gutman.

His father was a Hebrew writer and educator who wrote under the pen name S. Ben Zion [he]. In 1903, the family moved to Odessa, and two years later, to Ottoman Palestine.

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In 1908, Gutman attended the Herzliya Gymnasium in what would later become 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 S