| Beit Castel Gallery | |
|---|---|
 The Courtyard | |
 Interactive map of the Beit Castel Gallery area | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Local/Traditional |
| Location | Safed,Israel, Tet Zayn 16 Safed |
| Coordinates | 32°57′57″N35°29′39″E / 32.96577086°N 35.49406698°E /32.96577086; 35.49406698 |
| Owner | Yaacov Hadad |
| Website | |
| https://www.beitcastel.com/ | |
TheBeit Castel gallery (Hebrew:בית קסטל) (House Of Castel), is a gallery in the Artists' Colony ofSafed (Also known asTzfat orZefat). The gallery hosts art of a diverse range of artists from theArtists' Quarter of Safed with a special focus on the golden age of art inSafed.
Beit Castel used to be the home of the Israeli artist,Moshe Castel whose works are presented in theVatican andKnesset.[1] Castel was described byGideon Ofrat in a Jerusalem Post as a singular artist in part due to his Volcanic ash art technique.[1][2] The house, over time decayed was sold by Moshe Castel to his friend Yakov Hadad. Yakov Hadad as a boy was the court boy of Israeli giants such asYitzhak Frenkel Frenel andMoshe Castel and used to assist others such asNahum Gutman in order to make a bit of money for his family.[3] Yakov Hadad has since rebuilt the gallery, turning the house itself into what was described byIsraeli Channel 1 as a work of art.[4]
In fact, the house (now gallery) itself is located in proximity to the houses of artists such asShimshon Holzman andYitzhak Frenkel Frenel inYitzhak Frenkel Frenel/Moshe Castel streets (Tet'Vav/Tet'Zain street).
The art in the gallery was mostly produced by several well known artists of the quarter such asYitzhak Frenkel Frenel,Shimshon Holzman,Rolly Schaffer,Moshe Castel, Aaron Yaackobson and others. The art in the gallery is a mixture of modern art from the early 20th century up into the modern day, representing the breadth ofmodern Jewish art in pre-state Israel and the modern state of Israel.[5]
The gallery was described in theYedioth Ahronot article as having a middle-eastern ambience thanks to its ornate gardens, trees and little courtyards. It contains a wide variety of ancient tools and stone works collected in part byMoshe Castel, Yakov Hadad and other Israeli artists who found those stoneworks among rubble, in the fields or in other locations.[6]
The Beit Castel gallery was the filming location of the Television series:The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem.[7][8][9]
