Michael Matusevitsch

Michael Matusevitch was a painter (1929 - 2007). He was born in Odesa, Ukraine. An important painter who greatly influenced Matusevitch was Vincent Van Gogh. When an exhibition of Van Gogh arrived in Moscow from the Netherlands, Matusevitch hurried to see it. He found many things in common with the great artist: an outlook of the world, a total devotion to art and also a ritual inclination in painting. In 1974, he arrived in Israel and immediately felt a deep affinity with the landscape, as though he had been there before, and he depicted the country in paint.