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DAVID BEERI

Lives and works in Texas, USA and United Kingdom
www.davidbeeri.com

Beeri is an artist gifted with a special talent. He first family returned from Germany to Hungary where original
began to paint on December 5th, 1975, driven by a strong talents could expect no appreciation still.
inner inspiration. Due to his extraordinary progression, However, nothing could hinder David Beeri in his
he became nationally known by 1979, and has been creative freedom. After selling a number of paintings
an exhibitory artist ever since. He has had a number at a successful exhibition in Germany, he bought a

of exhibitions in Hungary and several other European house and after furnishing it, he continued to build the
countries as well as Israel, the United States, Japan, impressive worlds of his paintings, defended at the cost
China and Canada. of great sacrifices.
David Beeri is a deeply inspired, sovereign artist who As the years passed, his family grew, and today the artist
began to build a unique world of painting, finding his boasts of eight extremely talented children.
own individual tools of expression. This task tantamount For more than forty years now, David Beeri has
to a significant adventure was neither easy nor safe. surrendered everything to art and he has created a
Remember, Beeri experienced the Hungarian version unique world of pictures. In his pursuit, he has faced the
of Communism where artists could only prosper if they obstacles of huge sacrifices, lack, agony, persecution,

were willing to be integrated in the faceless mass of crude humiliation and pain, yet his beautiful pictorial
Solcialist art (“Socialist Realism”) like dumb sheep and world was constructed…
worshiped communist idols without raising a voice. No David Beeri’s art is matchless and unreproducible
wonder we do not find David Beeri among those fearing in every respect. His works are made impressively
for their quarry, he rather chose exile which could not ethereal by a special source of inspiration, unusual
be avoided. The artist left his homeland on November spiritualization and a light radiating from within. The
7th, 1987, together with his wife soon expecting their beauty and transparent radiance of his colors are created

second childs, and their one-year-old daughter. by the secret revelation of EXISTENCE, which makes the
At the news of the fall of the Communist regime, the paintings reminiscent of a transcendental world.
Dr Ferenc Matits, Art historian (2015)
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