Biographical notes

1922 Born in Mariampol, Lithuania, November 18th.
1928-1940 Hebrew School, Mariampol.
1940-1941 Academy of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania.
1942-1945 Lithuanian Unit, The Red Army.
1945-1950 M.A. Academy of Visual Arts, Vilna, Lithuania.
1950 Admission to the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.
1958 Immigrated to Israel.
1965-2008 Primary studio location in Jaffa by the old port.

1960-1982 Summered and painted in Safed (in the Galilee Mountains).
1973-1974 Cité des Arts International, Paris.
1977-1978 Asia House, Tel Aviv. Grand scale series (1.6 m x 18 m ): The History of the Jewish People,
 commissioned by Mr. Shaul Eisenberg.
1982 Establishes a secondary residence and studio in Safed.
1987 Changes his signature from: M.Rosenthalis to: M.Rosentalis
2008 Passed away in Tel Aviv, August 26th.
2009 His studio opens as: Rosenthalis House .

Teaching

1959-1975 Witzo Art School, Tel Aviv.
1964-1970 Teachers' College, Talpiot, Tel Aviv.
1965-2006 Color Workshop,Artist (Rosenthalis') studio, Jaffa.
1970-1973 Art Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan.
 Art Department, University of Tel Aviv.
1972 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
1974-1983 Hamidrasha-College of Art, Ramat Hasharon.


One-Man Exhibitions

1973 Oils and Watercolors, Writers Club, Paris, France
1974 Cité des Arts International, Paris, France
1975 Yad Lebanim Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel
1976 Zuri Gallery, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
 Dyokan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1977, 1978 Jaffa studio, Jaffa, Israel
1979 Tiroche Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
1980 Van Loo Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1981 Broekhoven Fine Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
 Jaffa studio, Jaffa, Israel
1982 Denia Gallery, Haifa, Israel
 Etchings and Drawings, A.R. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1983 Acrylics on board, Meir Gallery, Ra’anana, Israel
 A Retrospective, 1950-1983, Herzlia Museum of Art, Herzlia, Israel
 New Paintings from Safed, Summer 83, A.R. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1984 Jaffa studio, Jaffa, Israel
 Alon Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
1985 Galerie im Rathaus, Tempelhof, West Berlin, West Germany
1990 Small Formats,Tiroche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
 Large Formats and Sculptures, Park Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1991 Rienzo Gallery, New York, USA
 Riggs Gallery, La Jolla, California, USA
 Alon Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
1992 Z Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
 Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
1993 Jeanne Richards Gallery, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
 Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Bar’am, Israel
1994 Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
 Jeanne Richards Gallery, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
1995 Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
1996 Jeanne Richards Gallery, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
 Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
1997 Lois Richards Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
 Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1998 Jeanne Richards Gallery, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
 Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2001 Jeanne Richards Gallery, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
 Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2002 Studio Facing the Sea, Haifa Museum, The National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel
 Nuances et Lumiere , Lyon, France
2003 Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2004-2005, The Joy of Color, The Open Museums, Industrial Parks Tefen and Omer, Israel
2004 Zygman Voss Gallery, Chicago, USA
 Nuances et Lumiere , Lyon, France
2006 Zygman Voss Gallery, Chicago, USA
 Nuances et Lumiere , Lyon, France
 Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio,USA
2008 Zygman Voss Gallery, Chicago, USA
 Nuances et Lumiere , Lyon, France
2009 Freedom of Color, Vilnius City Hall and National Museum of Art in Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 Homage A Rosenthalis: Three exhibitions and one book
 "Rosenthalis Reworked, paintings 1959-2008", Rosenthalis House
 "From Within the Waves" , Warehouse No.2 at the Old Port of Jaffa
 "The 1000 Faces of Rosenthalis" , The Artists House Tel Aviv


Group Exhibitions

1950-1957 Biannual Lithuanian Artists Exhibitions, State Museum, Vilna, Lithuania.
1951 Lithuanian Artists, Tratiakov Museum, Moscow, USSR
1953 Lithuanian Artists, Academy of Art and Sciences, Moscow, USSR
1954 Baltic Artists, State Museum, Riga, Latvia.
1955 The Sea, State Museum, Moscow, USSR

1958 Israeli Artists, Hamelin House and Artists’ Pavilion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.
1959 Tel Aviv Jubilee, Dizengoff House, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
 Modern Art in Israel, Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
1960 Israeli Artists, Dizengoff House, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
 Urban Landscape, The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
1962 Paintings and Sculptures Celebrating the 41st Anniversary of the Israel Labor Federation,
 The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968 Israeli Artists, Dizengoff House, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
1964 Six Artists, Beit Zvi, Ramat Gan.
1966 Painting and Sculpture, The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
1967 The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
1967, 1968 Water color, Gouache, and Pastel, The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
1968 Five Artists, Municipal Museum, Ramat Gan.
 Miniatures, Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
1969 Aquarelles, Art Gallery, Holon.
 Figurative Painting, Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
 Shalom Aleichem House, Tel Aviv.
 Painting and Sculpture '69, Art Festival, Exhibition Park, Tel Aviv.
 Youth Cultural Center, Kfar Saba.
1970 Drawings, Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
1972 Landscape as a Point of Departure, Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv.
1974 Painting and Sculpture from Israel, Ohana Gallery, London.
1975 Ugarit Gallery, Tel Aviv.
1978 Sinai Landscapes, Ezri Gallery, Jerusalem.
1976 The City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Shulamit Gallery, Tel Aviv.
1979 Sixteen Artists Exhibit Together, Shamir Gallery, Tel Aviv.
1986 Jaffa Painters, 10th Anniversary of the 13 1/2 Gallery, Jaffa.
1988 Israel’s 40th Anniversary, Bonn, West Germany
2000 The Painted Figure, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio., USA
2003 The Sweetness of the Fruit - Fruit in Israeli Art, Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Bar’am.
2005-2007 Art from the Soviet Period at the Soviet Art Gallery of Grūtas Park, Lithuania

Awards

1948, 1949 First Prize for Drawing, Academy of Art, Vilna, Lithuania.
1950 Lithuanian government acquisition of diploma work, Vilna.
1951 Poster Design Prize, Ministry of Culture, Lithuania.
1954 Lithuanian government Award for Achievement in the Visual Arts.
1966 Acquisition by the Israel Labor Federation.
1998 Shalom Aleichem Prize for Achievement in the Plastic Arts.

Collections

State Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Siauliai 'Ausra' Museum, Lithuania.
Lithuanian Art museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Lithuanian National Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Soviet Art Gallery of Grūtas Park, Lithuania
Gricius school museum, Lithuania
Tratiakov Museum, Moscow, Russia
National Museum, Moscow. Russia
State Museum, Riga, Latvia.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Haifa Museum of Art.
Herzlia Museum of Art.
Yad Lebanim Museum of Art, Petach Tikva.
Haim Atar Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod.
Israel Phoenix Insurance Company.
The Israel Knesset, Jerusalem.
President’s House, Jerusalem.
Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Bar’am.
Israel Discount Bank.
Bank Leumi Le-Israel.
Bank Hapoalim.
Asia House, Tel Aviv.

Documentary Film
 
2006 Rosenthalis-Self Portrait, Director: Eli Cohen, Producer: Edna and Elinor Kowarsky
Cinematographer: Dani Schneor, Editor: Shlomo Hazan
Channel 8 – The Art and Science Channel, Israel

Books and Catalogues

1975 Moshe Rosenthalis, Yad Lebanim Museum of Art, Petach Tikva (catalogue).
1979 Moshe Rosenthalis, Tiroche Gallery, Jaffa (catalogue).
1982 David Giladi, Moshe Rosenthalis, Drawings and Etchings, A.R. Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue).
1983 Moshe Rosenthalis, A Retrospective, 1950-1983, Herzlia Museum of Art, Herzlia (catalogue).
 Moshe Rosenthalis, New Paintings from Safed, Summer '83, A.R. Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue).
1984 David Giladi, Moshe Rosenthalis, Artist and His Work (introduction by Clara Malraux), Keter Publishing,
 Jerusalem.
1985 Dr. Elyakim Yaron, Moshe Rosenthalis, A Journey to the Mysteries of Color, A.R. Gallery, Tel Aviv.
 Moshe Rosenthalis, Galerie im Rathaus, Tempelhof, West Berlin (catalogue).
1990 Moshe Rosenthalis, Paintings 1983-1990 (introduction by Adam Baruch- Hebrew.
 Melissa Feldman-English), Massada Publishing House, Givatayim, Israel.
1991 Moshe Rosenthalis, Art Chicago, Chicago (catalogue).
1991 Moshe Rosenthalis, New Paintings, Summer 1991, Riggs Gallery, La Jolla, California (catalogue)
1993 Moshe Rosenthalis, Sculptures and Small Oils, Medici Gallery, Carmel, California (catalogue).
1995 Moshe Rosenthalis, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan (catalogue).
2002 Moshe Rosenthalis, Studio Facing the Sea, Haifa Museums, The National Maritime Museum,
 Haifa (catalogue).
2004 The Joy of Color, The Open Museums, Industrial Parks Tefen and Omer (catalogue).
2009 The Color of Freedom, Vilnius City Hall and National Museum of Art in Kaunas, Lithuania (catalogue).
2009 Homage A Rosenthalis: "From Within the Waves" – Ori Dessau. " On the Sensual in Art" - Gideon Ofrat.
 "The 1000 Faces of Rosenthalis" – Daniella Talmor, "Colorist by Nature" – Hana Kofler.
 "Rosenthalis' Re-Work, paintings 1959-2008" – Avner Rosenthalis. Halfi Pulishing House, Holon, Israel