The acme of Bergner's paintings is his allegorical works; he uses kitchen tools such as squashed pots, oil lamps, wrecks and cracked jugs and he anthropomorphizes them. These old instruments symbolize distorted and poor world of wars, secrets and darkness. one of his student was Nurit Shany, a painter and a multidisciplinary Israeli artist. Awards In 1956, Bergner was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for painting. In 1980, he was awarded the Israel Prize for painting. See also List of Israel Prize recipients References Further reading Webberley, Helen "How Australian was Yosl Bergner?", Limmud Oz Conference, Sydney, 2007. External links Yosl Bergner at The Jewish Museum (New York) Yosl Bergner at the Engel Gallery The Dan Gallery has been the official and exclusive representative of the artist Yosl Bergner Yosl Bergner: Artworks at the National Gallery of Victoria (59) 1920 births 2017 deaths Australian emigrants to Israel Austrian emigrants to Poland 20th-century Austrian Jews 21st-century Austrian Jews Bundists Jewish socialists Israel Prize in painting recipients Israeli painters National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni Artists from Warsaw Polish emigrants to Australia Australian Army personnel of World War II