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Meir Agassi

Meir Agassi (1947-1998) was born at Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh, Israel. He was a painter, critic, editor, poet and prose writer. Agassi began studying drawing at age 14. During his military service, he served in the IDF theater and radio station. Later, he studied art at the Camden Arts Center in London.
Agassi published his first story in 1968 and held his first one-man exhibition in Tel Aviv in 1971. He was editor of an art and culture magazine and co-editor of Monitin, a popular weekly magazine. In 1983, Agassi settled in Bristol, England. He collected old books, postcards and documents, and exhibited them, along with photographs, drawings and imaginary characters in the “Meir Agassi Museum” he opened in his Bristol home.

Photo by: Gadi Dagon

The Books

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  • The Jar from Tennessee

    [Ha-Kad Mi-Tennessee: Mivchar Maʹamarim Al Omanim, Omanut Ve-Hitbonenut 1983-1997]
    Non Fiction Essays
    Am Oved 2008

  • Meir Agassi: Yehiel Shemi’s Papers

    [Meir Agassi: Niyarot Yehiel Shemi]
    Non Fiction
    The Ramat Gan Museum for Israeli Art 1998

  • The Black Hills of Dakota

    [Ha-Gvaʹot Ha-Shchorot Shel Dakota]
    Fiction
    Zmora-Bitan 1987

  • Clouds Sculpt Shapes

    [Ananim Mefaslim Tzurot]
    Poetry
    Hakibbutz Hameuchad 1969