Born 1901 Transylvania. 1921 immigrates to Palestine.
During his first years in the country, Levanon worked as a tarmhand. In 1925 he studied at Bezalel and acquainted himself with the innovations of European painting in the studio of ltzhak Frenkel. In the late 1920s he joined a large group of artists advocating pure formal and chromatic values, but most of his work was based on visual reality.
Levanon painted landscapes in a fundamentally expressionistic style, tinged with symbolism, as in his depictions of Sated, showing elongated buidings aspiring toward the sky, or of Jerusalem as a heavenly city. Until the late 1940s his paintings were extremely colorful, but in the following decade his landscapes were conceived rather as an architectonic construction of objects and colors within the painterly field.
Prizes:
1938, 1948, 1960 Dizengoff Trite.
1940 Struck Prize.
1948, 1968 Jerusalem Prize.
He died 1968 Jerusalem.
