Oz Almog
- January 5, 2024
- Painter
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Oz Almog Biography
| Name | Oz Almog |
| Birthday | Apr 15 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Birth Country | Israel |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
Oz Almog is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on April 15, 1956 in Israel. Israeli artist who was renowned for his provocative and confrontational artworks. His most influential paintings comprise Birth of a Myth and Blood Addict – Bloody scenes of Murder.
His work featured a range of public figures in the spotlight, including the writer His work included a number of people in the public eye including writer Franz Kafka..
Oz Almog is an Israeli artist and author who was born on 15 April 1956, in Kfar Saba, Israel.
Oz Almog’s artistic work is confrontational and provocative. In the 1980s, as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Austria, Almog took an active part with in off-scene underground culture in Europe. In the 1990s he addressed complex issues of human sexuality, totalitarian ideologies, consumerism and terrorism. In 1994, his Birth of a Myth (German title Geburt eines Mythos) exhibition took place at WUK, an alternative arts center in Vienna. The center was converted into a shrine with flags and a flower-strewn floor. In some 70 oil paintings Almog auto-portrayed himself in the style of Nazi art, classicism and social realism as a ruler and savior, as a naked, provocatively muscle-bound godlike figure, as a fiery agitator or simply with the stern regard of a stormtrooper, complete with leather belt and jackboots.
He was raised by his Russian/Romanian family living in Kfar Saba, Israel.
Oz Almog Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Painter |
| House | Living in own house. |
Oz Almog is one of the richest Painter from Israel. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oz Almog 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was a student at The Vienna Academy of Fine Arts after completing his service in the Israeli Navy.
His exhibits are often shocking, and ingenuous His most well-known being “Birth of a Myth” from 1994 as well as “The Psychonaut and His Mind Navigator” in 1995.
In the exhibition Kosher Nostra. Jewish Gangsters in America 1890–1980, Oz Almog created an impressive documentary summary of an entire epoch of crimes committed by Jewish gangsters. Through pictures, newspaper articles, and official documents, he showed how such criminals as Meyer Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, and Louis “Lepke” Buchalter had a determining influence on the development of organized crime in America. Kosher Nostra, shown in 2004-2005 at the Jewish Museum, Vienna, featured more than 160 realistic oil portraits, with most of personalities shown both full-face and from profile. Each “mug shot” was accompanied with a short biography, resulting in two books with over 1000 pages.
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Almog’s 1995 exhibition The Psychonaut and His Mind Navigator, featured 360 oils, mostly self-portraits in the style of pulp magazine covers. The artist presented himself as a lecherous vampire drooling over a beautiful blond, a revolver-toting gangster, a crazed toy alien, or monstrously endowed porno star. The same year Oz Almog undertook the project En Face – Not seen and/or less seen of/by, reconstructing the images of the famous visual artists by using an original collection of interchangeable facial features’ templates of Austrian Federal Police from the 70s. This was followed by conceptual exhibitions: Blok Brut (auto-erotic deaths) and Blood Addict – Bloody scenes of Murder 1949-1960, presented in Janco Dada Museum in Israel in 1997, and Shaheed (Suicide Terror phenomena) in Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv. It is a series of selected real police photos of fatal auto-erotic strangulations, extracts from the scene-of-the-crime photos, metamorphosed with real blood into abstract light and dark compositions,
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Oz Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Israel. Oz Almog celebrates birthday on April 15 of every year.