Photograph of Artist ISRAEL TSVAYGENBAUM
ISRAEL TSVAYGENBAUM
Albany, New York - United States



Original Artworks (20)

Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Wrapped In Love, 2014, Original Painting Oil, 36 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241  Israel Tsvaygenbaum always believed that human beings are not single creatures in this universe who have the feelings of love and devotions to each other.  This subject unconsciously was always with artist. In the painting Wrapped in Love, Tsvaygenbaum, depicted a wedding between two trees that were ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2014
36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Duet, 1993, Original Painting Oil, 11 x 14 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaum believes that at some point we all dream about having a dialogue or being in harmony with God. The painting
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 1993
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; The Way Aliyah, 1997, Original Painting Oil, 11 x 14 inches. Artwork description: 241  The picture
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 1997
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; The Rabbi Leading The Angel, 1997, Original Painting Oil, 18 x 28 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaum's painting
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 1997
18 x 28 inches (45.7 x 71.1 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Conjured Melodies, 2003, Original Painting Oil, 36 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2003
36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; The Man And Mouse, 1997, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 40 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaumi? 1/2s painting The Man and Mouse is about a violinist who plays about our life what might happen to us if we lose our values. In the tree, we see a Torah scroll with a mouse on it. The mouse symbolizes the tragedies that people have ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 1997
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; The Shochet With Rooster, 1997, Original Painting Oil, 22 x 28 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaumi? 1/2s painting The Rabbi Leading the Angel is about a Rabbi who leads Godi? 1/2s angel. Tsvaygenbaum let Godi? 1/2s angel follow a human being that carries the Torah as Godi? 1/2s guidebook to life. Godi? 1/2s Bible is cherished both by humanity and angels. ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 1997
22 x 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Boy Leading The Blind Angel, 1997, Original Painting Oil, 22 x 28 inches. Artwork description: 241  The boy in the painting Boy Leading the Blind Angel with a Torah in his hand is leading the blind angel through the desert. The image is based on a dream Tsvaygenbaum had. In his dream, he also saw a vision of the future, where God trusts ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 1997
22 x 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; A Bride, I, 1997, Original Painting Oil, 22 x 28 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaum thinks that a veil adds glorious beauty to a bride. It moved him to create the painting A Bride, I. This is dedicated to his wife and all brides. ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 1997
22 x 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Two Lives, 1997, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 40 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaums painting Two Lives is about the harmony between two forms of beauty natural, represented by the tree and man- made, represented by the jar with flowers. Both are beautiful in their own right and bring us joy. Sometimes we dont know which one brings more. ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 1997
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; People Of Derbent, 1999, Original Painting Oil, 14 x 18 inches. Artwork description: 241  The painting People of Derbent is dedicated to the people of Derbent, the birth city of the artist, Israel Tsvaygenbaum. While the surroundings do look like the city of Derbent, the people were painted based on impressions that his father gave him about Jews in Poland. We ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 1999
14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; The Golden Jar, 2001, Original Painting Oil, 14 x 18 inches. Artwork description: 241  When Tsvaygenbaum started work on painting The Golden Jar he came up with the idea to combine the golden jar and flowers with the people from the books of Sholom Aleichem. The background of the composition shows the Old City of Jerusalem. ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2001
14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Abraham And Isaac, 2001, Original Painting Oil, 14 x 18 inches. Artwork description: 241  As a father of three children, Tsvaygenbaum always had a hard time comprehending how easily Abraham went to obey God' s command to sacrifice his son Isaac. It would always bring him goose bumps. Tsvaygenbaum is glad that God only challenged Abraham and spared the life ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2001
14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Roses, 2002, Original Painting Oil, 18 x 24 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaum always loved flowers, but roses are his favorite. Tsvaygenbaum remembers that as a child that he liked to observe how roses grew day by day and how they changed in form. When he decided to create a painting about his childhood town Derbent, he wanted to ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2002
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Moses And The Masks, 2002, Original Painting Oil, 18 x 24 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaum was always fascinated with Moses in the Bible and his tremendous role in Jewish history. Tsvaygenbaum always had an inclination to create a painting about Moses and his relationship with his people, who occasionally challenged and disappointed him with their behavior. The masks represent all our ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2002
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Woman With Shawl, 2003, Original Painting Oil, 24 x 30 inches. Artwork description: 241  Woman with Shawl is dedicated to the women of the Caucasus that Tsvaygenbaum grew up with in Russia. His grandmother, mother and many women in Caucasus wore traditional shawls. They were very colorful with their various displays of beautiful patterns. He still remembers how much he liked ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2003
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Flight Of The Soul, 2006, Original Painting Oil, 24 x 30 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaum' s painting Flight of the Soul had been painted based off his dreams. Since Tsvaygenbaum moved to the USA, in his dreams he has seen the flights of his soul over his hometown city, Derbent. Tsvaygenbaum loves his life in the USA, but his soul ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2006
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; The Wandering Mary Magdalene, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 24 x 30 inches. Artwork description: 241 The novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown inspired Tsvaygenbaum to create the painting The Wandering Mary Magdalene. Tsvaygenbaum liked his idea that Jesus might have had a child from Mary Magdalene. Tsvaygenbaum thinks this idea with a child adds another dimension to the topic. ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2007
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; Prayers At The Tree Of Life, 2012, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 40 inches. Artwork description: 241  The artist Israel Tsvaygenbaum painted Prayers at the Tree of Life in honor of Holocaust survivor and artist Irene Lieblich and also in honor of people' s prayers at the Tree of Life. Tsvaygenbaum thinks that at some point in our lives our prayers turn to ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2012
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
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Israel Tsvaygenbaum; The Angel Of Roses, 2012, Original Painting Oil, 36 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241  Tsvaygenbaum' s painting The Angel of Roses is tribute to a new life. Tsvaygenbaum thinks that during development of a new life inside a mother' s womb, there exists an angel who is watching over the child in the garden of roses. To Tsvaygenbaum, an ...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum
Original Oil Painting, 2012
36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
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Artist Statement

I believe that art is as necessary as the air we breathe; it is what makes us human. As an artist, my role is to help people fulfill this need.

My medium is oil on canvas. I like the roughness, the vibrancy of oil. Through oil, I can best express myself.

I love the process of painting. When I'm painting, I don't think about the finished product or the viewer; I just focus on being true to the process. Before I ever touch the canvas, or begin to sketch, I let the images swirl around in my mind. Then, I begin a series of sketches to translate my thoughts into more concrete images. As the images take shape on the canvas, they begin to change. Sometimes, I myself am surprised at the outcome.

What kind of painting do I do? I don't like labels; I prefer to be free to interpret my ideas as they come to me. Some of the themes that have figured in my paintings are my personal past, Jewish history, Biblical themes and nature. A number of my paintings are set in Derbent, a city in the south of Russia where I spent the first 33 years of my life.

I don't have a set hope for what viewers will see in my painting. My wish is that my paintings resonate for them, and become a part of their spirit. If a painting can lift a viewer out of the world of the mundane and inspire them to touch their own higher self, then as a painter, I have succeeded. ...

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