Joseph Kossonogi was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1908.
After studies at the Berlin Academy of Art , immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv in 1926. There he formed a group of young painters known as Massad. In 1929, the Massad group had its first exhibition and, in 1935, the group's members joined the Israel Association of Painters and Sculptors. Kossonogi had one-man shows at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1944 and 1954, and was a recipient of the Dizengoff Prize in painting . In 1956, Kossonogi joined the Artists' Colony in Safed. Kossonogi won the Histadrut Prize in 1966 and the Nordau Prize in 1976. Passed away in 1981.
