Benish Mininberg [SEP] date of birth
Benish Mininberg
Benish Mininberg (1902—1996) was an Israeli painter.
Life.
Benish was one of seven siblings of Yehuda and Leba Mininberg. His parents were members of the First Aliyah, having migrated in 1900 to the small village of Neve Shalom, near the town of Jaffa, then part of Palestine. The Mininberg family resided in the craftsman center of the Neve Shalom village. Benish quit his studies in the Elians primary school before the fourth grade to join his fathers' house painting business.
The last
Benish's grandson – Eli Mininberg.
Files found in Benish’s inheritance testify that in 1925 he performed several special painting jobs in public buildings in Hebron for the British government in Jerusalem. Uri his son says Benish told him he had painted a ceiling painting in the house of a British governor - possibly Charles Clore in the governor’s palace (“Armon HaNetziv”) in Jerusalem in 1928.
In 1928 an advertisement for the “Institute for Israeli art of Mininberg & Sons” appeared in “Hanagar” (The