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Thanks to their city’s Museum of Art, legions of Tel Aviv’s sunseekers and volleyball players can also enjoy high culture. The Museum – home to one of the Middle East’s leading collections of 20th Century art – has allowed reproductions of its most famous paintings to feature as part of a pop-up gallery featuring works of such well known artists as Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Kandinsky, Van Gogh as well as paintings by lesser known artists. Many of the paintings depict scenes that evoke beaches or the sea – for example, "Sunset" an oil colour painted in 1921-22 by the German-born expressionist, Max Pechstein. Pechstein was a prolific printmaker, producing 421 lithographs, 315 woodcuts and linocuts, and 165 intaglio prints, mostly etchings. Pechstein was a professor at the Berlin Academy for ten years before his dismissal by the Nazis in 1933. Thereafter, he was vilified by the Nazis because of his art. A total of 326 of his paintings were removed from German museums. Sixteen of his works were displayed in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition of 1937. During this time, Pechstein went into seclusion in rural Pomerania. He eventually sought refuge in Mandatory Palestine. He was reinstated into the Berlin Academy in 1945, and subsequently won numerous titles and awards for his work. He died in West Berlin and is buried in that city's Evangelischer Friedhof Alt-Schmargendorf.

Thanks to their city’s Museum of Art, legions of Tel Aviv’s sunseekers and volleyball players can also enjoy high culture. The Museum – home to one of the Middle East’s leading collections of 20th Century art – has allowed reproductions of its most famous paintings to feature as part of a pop-up gallery featuring works of such well known artists as Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Kandinsky, Van Gogh as well as paintings by lesser known Israeli artists – for example, "The Zeppelin Over Tel Aviv" an oil colour painted in 1926 by the Israeli artist Reuven Rubin. Rubin painted this image on Purim 1929, when the airship – flying over the country on a journey around the world – became the focal point of holiday festivities. Rubin depicts the special atmosphere by means of miniature figures that are seen from a distance, standing on the roofs of houses decorated with blue-and-white Star of David flags and waving their arms at the passing airship. The ship, the boats, and the pink curtain whose edges are decorated with white lace intensify the carnivalesque atmosphere. It seems like neither the dark clouds hanging over the horizon nor the rain pouring down on the zeppelin can do anything to ruin the scene or to overshadow the joy of the celebrants.

Thanks to their city’s Museum of Art, legions of Tel Aviv’s sunseekers and volleyball players can also enjoy high culture. The Museum – home to one of the Middle East’s leading collections of 20th Century art – has allowed reproductions of its most famous paintings to feature as part of a pop-up gallery featuring works of such well known artists as Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Kandinsky, Van Gogh as well as paintings by lesser known artists. Many of the paintings depict scenes that evoke beaches or the sea – for example, "Mother and Child by the Seashore" an oil colour painted in 1901 by Pablo Picasso.

Thanks to their city’s Museum of Art, legions of Tel Aviv’s sunseekers and volleyball players can also enjoy high culture. The Museum – home to one of the Middle East’s leading collections of 20th Century art – has allowed reproductions of its most famous paintings to feature as part of a pop-up gallery featuring works of such well known artists as Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Kandinsky, Van Gogh as well as paintings by lesser known Israeli artists – for example, "Resting at Noon" an oil colour painted in 1926 by the Israeli artist Nahum Gutman.

Thanks to their city’s Museum of Art, legions of Tel Aviv’s sunseekers and volleyball players can also enjoy high culture. The Museum – home to one of the Middle East’s leading collections of 20th Century art – has allowed reproductions of its most famous paintings to feature as part of a pop-up gallery featuring works of such well known artists as Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Kandinsky, Van Gogh as well as paintings by lesser known artists. Many of the paintings depict scenes that evoke beaches or the sea – for example, "Hauling the Nets" an oil colour painted in 1899 by Henri-Edmond Cross.

David Ben Gurion was one of the founders of the modern state of Israel in 1948 and was its first prime minister. Aside from being a statesman, he was a deeply spiritual person – although not in a traditionally religious sense of the word. Residents of the area of what is now known as the Ben Gurion Boulevard often saw him doing yoga postures at the beach. In 1957, photographer Paul Goldman portrayed the moment Ben Gurion did a handstand on Frishman Beach beach in Tel Aviv. Today on that same spot there is a statue depicting the iconic image. The statue was made by the German company Artilink Productions, and was placed by the company Zebra Sets. In my opinion it is a very funny postcard of the city!