Olaf Kühnemann
Olaf Kühnemann (born 24 November 1972) is an Israeli-German painter, winner of the Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize of 2008, and was included in the juror's pick of the 2014 Thames & Hudson publishing's book, "100 Painters of Tomorrow". Kühnemann lives and works between Berlin and Tel Aviv. Personal life and education Olaf Kühnemann was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1972 to German parents Markus and Christiane. Until the age of four, he was raised in Arlesheim, Basel, in a family that was greatly affected by Anthroposophy – on which the belief and occupation of both of his parents were based. Following the divorce of his parents and the second marriage of his mother to the Israeli professor Shimon Levi, the family moved to Montreal, Canada, in 1977, and to Herzliya, Israel, in 1980. In Herzliya, Israel, Olaf met his first art teacher, the sculptor Zvi Lachman. During his childhood and early adulthood he studied painting with Lachman, and over the years became an apprentice in his studio. During 1987–1988 Kühnemann studied for a year at the Anthroposophical high school Michael Hall in East Sussex England, after which he returned to Israel. At the age of 18,