Engelsberg, Leon, Painter. b. 1919, Warsaw, Died 1998, Jerusalem. Engelsberg spent part of World War II in the Warsaw Ghetto and studied art in Warsaw in the period following World War II. He immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem in 1955.From the onset Engelsberg was taken by Jerusalem's mountainess scenery. Engelsberg developed a technique of moderately expressionist figurativism, drawing on the legacy of Eastern European Jewish art. The artist defined his relationship to Jerusalem as emotionally driven, attuned to nature and concealing the "scars" inflicted on it by man. Thus the landmarks of Jerusalem such as the Temple Mount, the mosques and churches are missing trom Engelsberg's scenic panoramas, reduced to structural elements absorbed into the spectrum of colors forming the composition.Winner of the Sussman Prize, Yad Vashem.