Born in Poland, Meir Steingold studied art with the sculptor Zeev Ben Zvi at the refugee internment camps in Cyprus, and later with Marcel Janco and Zvi Marowitz at the Oranim Art Institute in Tiveon, Israel. 

Both artists influenced him deeply. In the 1960s Stiengold developed his own style of sombre expressive compositions, best demonstrated in his powerful series of "Horses and Riders", "Interiors", and "Pages". 

Steingold’s style developed the idea of using a figurative subject which is then over layered with different layers of paint applied in an abstract way drawn out with dark and sombre undertones through which light colours create punctuated relief.  This use of figurative object with abstraction overlaid is the most renowned aspect of his work and a style he developed through the 1960s.