Arnold Daghani
Active 1909 - 1985
Born into a Jewish family in Suceava, Romania (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Daghani and his wife were imprisoned in and escaped from a Ukrainian labour-camp and in the 1950s left Romania to live in Israel, France, Switzerland and finally England, settling in Hove in 1977.
Many of Daghani's works document his experiences in the slave-labour camp of Mikhailowka (1942-3) and in the ghetto of Bershad. His works from the 1960s and 1970s relate to broader themes of contemporary life, including music, literature, religion, politics and the circus, as well as the difficulties of being an artist.
Since the fall of the Communist regime, Daghani has become well known in his native Romania and major collections of his works are to be found in the National Gallery, Romania and the Museum of Modern Art , Bucharest , and at Sussex University as part of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies. He has been collected widely in England and abroad, and notable by Professor Edward Timms and Dr Deborah Schultz at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies of the University of Sussex , UK
PROVENANCE: Gift to Lady Balchin by the artist in mid 1970's.
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