The German-Israeli painter Chaim (Egon) Kiewe was a rebel against the popular artistic categories in Israel. He mastered the artistic languages of the two most important art centers of the twentieth century, Paris and New York. His life, like his art, was in continuous transformation, from his childhood in eastern Prussia through the years in kibbutz Na'an and the years he spent in Paris, from figurative painting through lyric abstraction and Pop Art. He was never stagnant and always looked for new worlds of expression. As a young man, he took part in the struggle to build the State of Israel after he lost most of his family in the Holocaust. Later he received recognition as an artist in exhibitions throughout Europe and won the international painting festival in Cagnes-Sur-Mer. After his return to Israel, he became an important teacher in the main art schools. There he raised a generation of young artists, preaching artistic freedom of thought.