Osias Hofstatter: Polish Holocaust Painter

Hofstatter survived the Holocaust as an artist and as such, managed to rehabilitate his life in Poland with his wife Anna after losing most of his family during World War II. It was art that led him to an insight that he would not have the capability of expressing himself under a communist regime. Even though having undergone tragic life circumstances and hardships that tainted most of his life with intense colors of survival, art was the pivot of life of the painter Osias Hofstatter. Even after moving to Israel, despite the hardships in making a solid connection between his art and the need to have a source of livelihood and the struggle of making a living in his first years in Israel, he did not abandon creative work. A meeting with Irena and the late Yaakov Wodislavsky changed Hofstatter's creative path. The Wodislavsky's became the artist's patrons from their first encounter to the day he passed away. The ability to direct all his energy and most of his time to painting led to a significant change to the pace and volume of his work.