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Shraga Weil was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1918 to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants. His father, a building engineer, who was an amateur painter, sent him to study with a local sculptor and then to the Prague School of Art.He produced his first graphic works during World War II, part of which he spent as a prisoner.
After the war, Weil sailed for Israel on an illegal immigrant ship, eventually arriving in the new country in 1947 and becoming a member of Kibbutz Haogen, where he has been living ever since. In 1954 Weil spent some time studying murals and graphic techniques at the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris and Ravenna mosaics with Prof. Severinl.
Shraga Weil's works have been exhibited in the United States, South America, Canada, Australia, France, the USSR, Switzerland, and in the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, in Lugano. In 1959, Weil was awarded Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Art Prize.
1937-39 Art Academy, Prague
1947 Settled in Kibbutz Haogen
1953-54 Academic Des Beaux Arts, Paris
1959 Was awarded Dizengoff Art Prize, Tel Aviv
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Museums and Public Collections Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Boston Public Library
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Fogg Museum, Harvard University
Los Angeles County Museum
Jewish Museum, New York
Philadephia Museum of Art
Joslyn Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
Exhibitions
1960 Tel Aviv Museum
1961 Hazorea Museum
1962 London
1963 Tel Aviv
1965 Museum of Art, Eilat,
1966 Jerusalem Fine Art Gallery
1967 Safrai Gallery, Jerusalem
1969 Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Boston
1971 Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Boston
1973 Jewish Museum, New York
1974 Safrai Gallery, Jerusalem
1977 Safrai Gallery, Tel Aviv
1978 Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Boston
1981 Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Boston
1983 Safrai Gallery-Tel Aviv
1984 Safrai Gallery-Jerusalem
1986-7 Safrai Gallery-Tel Aviv
1988 Glasshaus Galerie Zug, Switzerland
1990 Nishiziv Art, Tokyo
1991 Safrai Gallery, Tel Aviv
