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Media - Sculptures
Address - Ein Hod, the artists village
Phone - +972-4-6360198
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.leonbronstein.com
Leon Bronstein has had a life of adventure that has taken him from the country of his birth
in Moldavia, to the land of Israel. An engineer and watchmaker by training, Bronstein's vivid
and active imagination ripened and evolved as he sought freedom with his family away from the
constraint of the culture of his birth. Bronstein, like many seekers, discovered within
himself a source of strength and creative power that would generate an artistic vocation
inspired with determination to express a reach for freedom. The year was 1979, Bronstein could
not find a job as an engineer or watchmaker, he needed employment, he could work with tools
and had molded clay and worked with wood as a child. It was the beautiful grain of a piece of
olive wood that motivated the sculptor to fashion a small figure at a wood shop in the Old
City Caesarea. It was through this statue that was so well received by a local shopkeeper that
Bronstein's new artistic direction was charted. This combination of circumstances and the
success of his first sculpture gave direction and purpose to his innate talent...
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