Jochanan Ligtenberg

Johan Gerrit Ligtenberg Age 66 (born 1942) is a Dutch-born Australian painter.
Ligtenberg was born in Zwolle, Netherlands. For the first three years of Ligtenberg life, during the War from 1939-1945 along with his brother and sister hid from the Nazis on a farm in Holland and at times would not see day light. After the war ended the Ligtenberg family, Father, Mother and their three children in 1956 Departed the Netherlands and migrated to Australia where they settled in Adelaide, South Australia under the Netherlands Australian Migration Agreement Ligtenberg married Jean Robertson and had five children. By med 1980 Ligtenberg, his wife and their 5 children moved from South Australia to Brisbane where Ligtenberg specialized in fresco paintings and large murals. Ligtenberg won second prize for his painting in the state of Queensland in 1989.
For the most part of Ligtenberg's life was in following the Christian faith until in the late 1980s while living in Brisbane and attending his local church Cross bearers Ligtenberg, his wife and 3 of his children moved away from Christianity and started attending conversion classes into Judaism But it was not until he moved from Brisbane to the Gold Coast South of Brisbane in Med 1991 his conversion took place. Shortly after Lightenberg in March 1992 with his wife and three of their children left Australia and migrated to Israel where they are still live today.
Since then, Ligtenberg said he has stopped receiving commissions for fresco paintings and started to explore the technique of the 17th century Dutch masters as an attempt to return to his Dutch roots. Today, it is clamed that Ligtenberg is one of the world experts of this Dutch-Flemish renaissance painters such as Brueghel, Adriaen and Isaac van Ostade, David Teniers, Aelbert Cuyp, Johannes Vermeer and Pieter De Hooch.
Currently, Ligtenberg spends most of his time now between his studios in Israel and in Bundaberg North Queensland Australia with their son, daughter and their grandchildren, Ligtenberg said this is where he is experimenting with painting in the glaze technique, in which the paint is not applied "a la prima" but through many layers of thin, transparent oil painting.
Ligtenberg said Each of his oil paintings takes between a year and 18 months to complete. This is due to the sharp details he said that shows in his art work and to the fact that in the final stages he uses a magnifying glass to complete the artwork.
It is said, that Ligtenberg’s artwork can be found in prominent collections around the world, such as [, the Israeli Prime Minister you will also find Ligtenbergs Works of art at the Blue and White Art Gallery in Israel

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