MENSES, Jan, R.C.A., A.N., A.E., A.I., LL.D.;
painter, draughtsman, printmaker, muralist; b. Rotterdam, Netherlands 28 April 1933; s. Jan and Elisabeth Wilhelmina (Schwarz) M.; e. Willem de Zwijger H.B.S. Rotterdam 1951; Degrees in Eng. lang. and Dutch lang. Rotterdam 1952, ’56; Royal Air Force Offrs.’ Acad. Breda, Holland grad. 1954; Rotterdam Art Acad. Etching & Lithography 1959; study trips Europe, N. Africa 1956-58, Israel 1971, ’84, ’85, ’86, ’89; m. Rachel Régine d. late Rabbi Shlomo Kadoch, Morocco, 7 Dec. 1958; children: Solomon, Hninah Sarah, Nechama Elisabeth Halo; Rsch./ work trips to Israel 1992- ; solo exhns.: France, Holland, Spain, Morocco to 1960; Jewish Pub. Lib., Montreal 1960; McGill Univ. 1961; Penthouse Gallery, Montreal 1962; Montebello Gallery, Montreal 1962; Tifereth Jerusalem Cong., Montreal 1963; Isaacs Gallery, Toronto 1964; Jason Teff Gallery, Montreal 1964; Delta Gallery, Rotterdam 1965; Galerie Godard Lefort, Montreal 1966; Gallery Moos, Toronto 1967; Galerie Martal, Montreal 1971-72; Rotterdamse Kunststichting 1974; Galerie Mira Godard, Toronto 1977, Montreal 1978; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1976 (retrospective) Studio Gravure G, Ottawa 1979; Elca London Gallery, Montreal 1979, Seasons Galleries, The Hague 1980; Univ. of B.C. Fine Arts Gallery 1981; Galerie Don Stewart, Montreal 1981; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Mass. 1983; Galerie Michel Tetreault Art Contemporain, Montreal 1983; Saidye Bronfman Centre Museum 1984; Agnès Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston 1984; Blom & Dorn Gallery, New York 1985-91, 1994-96; Marywood College Museum, Scranton, Pa. 1985; Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Westmount, Que. 1986-87; Wolfson Community Ctr., Safed, Israel 1987; Mayanot Gallery, Jerusalem 1987, ’88; Esperanza Gall., Montreal 1988-89; Young Israel of Montreal 1989; Gallery Hamaayan Haradum-Safed, Israel 1989- ; Galerie La Magie D’Art, Toronto 1991; Blom & Dorn Gallery, Hartford, Conn. 1992, 1996-97; Gallery Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel 1994; Safed Gallery / Museum: Menses Hamaayan Haradum; Nora Gallery, Jerusalem 1995-96, 1998-99; The DBD Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A. 1999; Bezalel – Artist Academy, Jerusalem 2004; two-man shows: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1961, ’65; Philadelphia Art Alliance 1969; Concordia Univ., Montreal 1985; rep. over 250 group exhns. Canada, USA, Europe, most recent: Gallery / Museum Hamaayan Haradum, Safed, Israel 1999-2004; Triennale Majdanek Museum, Lublin, Poland; R.C.A. Tableaux du Quebec Academy House Gallery, Toronto 1991, Permanent Exhibition of Safed Artists, Artist’s Colony, Safed, Israel; Ora Group of 8 – Israel Art Gallery of Ont., Toronto 1990; rep. major permanent collections incl.: The London Regional Art & Historical Museums (3 works); Bronfman Museum, Cdn. Jewish Congress, Montreal, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia; Olympia & York Collection, Toronto; McGill Univ. Collection, Montreal; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Cdn. Jewish Congress Museum, Montreal; Esperanza Gallery Collection, Montreal; Holocaust Remembrance Centre, Toronto; City of Safed, Israel; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Brooklyn Museum, N.Y.; Art Inst. of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Detroit Inst. of Arts; Yale Univ., New Haven; Yivo Inst., N.Y.; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Mass.; Jonathan Edwards College, New Haven; Museum of Art, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson U.S.A.; Nat. Gallery of Canada, Canada Council Art Bank, Dept. of External Affairs, Ottawa; Thomas More Inst., Montreal; Universite de Montreal; ; CBC Collection, Montreal; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Musee d’ Art Contemporain, Montreal; Concordia Univ. Montreal; Lavalin Collection Montreal; The Gallery, Stratford; The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa; Holocaust Mem. Centre Montreal (Mural.); Quebec Prov. Museum; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; C.I.L. Collection, Montreal; Cadillac-Fairview Collection, Montreal; Loto Quebec Collection, Montreal; Owens Art Museum, Sackville, N.B.; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; David Giles Carter Collection, New Haven. Conn.; Bar Ilan Univ. Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel; Museo Ciani di Villa Caccia Lugano; Yad Vashem Holocaust Mem., Jerusalem; Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem; Victoria and Albert, London; The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H. U.S.A.; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,, Mass.; The New York Public Library; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ont. Canada; Strassburger Coll., Israel; Malchi Coll. of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel; Oziel Coll. of Contemp. Art, Toronto; Denbo Coll. of Contemp. Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.; Mira Godard Coll. of Contemp. Art, Toronto; De Leeuw Coll. of Contemp. Art, Holland; as well as private colls. Canada, U.S.A., Europe, N. Africa, Australia & New Zealand, Japan, U.S.S.R; Haifa Musuem of Modern Art, Haifa; Vatican Museum, Rome; Banque d’Oeuvres d’Art du Quebec, Quebec; Ministère des Communautés Culturelles et de l’Immigration du Quebec, Quebec; Shalom Hartman Inst., Jerusalem; Collection Rishon LeZion, Jerusalem; Jewish Public Library, Montreal; Cemp Collection, Montreal; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. U.S.A.; University Art Galleries, Univ. of New Hampshire, U.S.A.; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis Univ., Waltham, Mass., U.S.A.; recent acquisitions of works: Musee d’art Contemporain de Montreal; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (2 works); Univ. College of Cape Breton Art Gallery, Sydney, N.S.; Panstwowe Muzeum Na-Majdanku, (The Maidanek Museum, Lublin, Poland); Confederation Art Museum, Charlottetown, P.E.I. (1 work); Kitchener / Waterloo Museum, Ont. (5 works); Indianapolis Museum of Art, U.S.A.; recipient, 5 First Prizes Nat. Art Exhn. Que. 1960-64 Concours Artistiques de la Prov. De Que. Grand Prize 1965; 5th, 10th and 11th Winnipeg Shows 1961, ’66, ’68; IX Internat. Exhn. Drawings & Engravings Lugano 1966; Official Centennial Art Competition Toronto Perspective Prize 1967; Hadassah Prizes Montreal 1967, ’69, ’70, ’71, ’82; Reeves of Canada Award Ont. Soc. Artists Toronto 1969, Tigert Award 1970, Loomis & Toles Award 1972; Laureat Concours Artistiques Prov. Que. 1971; J.I. Segal Arts Award Montreal 1975; Accademia Italia delle Arte e del Lavoro Italy Gold Medal 1980; First Prize, Third Quebec Biennale 1981; Hon. Degree, Universita Delle Arti, Italy 1981; Image 81 Award, Ont. Soc. Artists 1981; Gold Medal Internat. Parliament U.S.A. 1982; Image 82 Award Montreal, Ont. Soc. Artists 1981; Gold Medal Internat. Parliament U.S.A. 1982; Image 82 Award Montreal, Ont. Soc. Artists 1982; Gran Premio delle Nazione, Italy 1983; World Culture Prize for Letters, The Arts and the Sciences, Italy 1984; Oscar d’Italia 1985; European Banner of Arts with Gold Medal 1984; Hon. Degree, Maestro Accademico, Accademia Bedriacense, Italy 1984; Golden Flame Award, Italy 1986; Ish Shalom Award, Jerusalem 1994; various Can. Council grants and Sr. Arts Fellowships 1969-70, 1971-72, 1981-82; 4 purchase awards; CBC Film Documentary Jan Menses: Exile and Redemption (on Klippoth, Kaddish & Tikkun Cycles) 1985; participated Internat. Art Fairs Paris, France Cologne, Germany 1986; Lectr. In Fine Arts, Concordia Univ. 1973-76; Visiting Artist, Mount Allison Univ. 1978-90; major cycles of work: Diabolica Series 1961-62, Victors Series 1963, Kaddish Series 1965-1980, Klippoth Series 1963-78, Tikkun Series 1978-, Metamorphoses Series, Doomed Children Series, Shevirath Hakelim Series, Lepers Series (Morocco); illustrated vol. of poetry based on Exodus 1960; Staub un Ebigkeit 1981; served with Royal Dutch Air Force 1953-55; Officer’s Academy; mem., President’s Counchil, Univ. of New Hampshire, U.S.A.; mem., Accademia Italia delle Arte e del Lavoro; Soc. Des Artistes en Arts Vusuels du Que.; Royal Cdn. Academy of Arts (R.C.A.); Accademia d’Europa; Accadmia delle Nazioni; Jewish Am. Acad. of Arts and Sciences, U.S.A.; Israel Assn. of Visual Art, Jerusalem 1994; languages spoken and written; Dutch, English, French, German; Addresses: 29, Rechov Chai Taib, Apt. 20, Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel 95405 and 15 Rehov Tet Zain, Artist’s Quarter, Safed, Israel 13213.