Leo RothIsraeli Kibbutz Artist Judaica Shul Torah Ark Surrealist Gouache Painting

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Leo Roth (1914–2002), also known as Lior Roth, was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Austria-Hungary. (later Poland)

In … Read more Leo Roth (1914–2002), also known as Lior Roth, was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Austria-Hungary. (later Poland)

In 1920, Roth moved to Germany and, in 1933, immigrated to Palestine. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completed frescoes in Italy and France in the 1950s. Roth first settled in Tel Aviv, then moved to Kvutzat Kinneret, then finally to Kibbutz Afikim where he remained until his death. He served as Director of the Art Academy of the Kibbutzim. In 1959, he was awarded the Jordan Valley Prize for Painting. Roth exhibited in the United States, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. He died in 2002.


Education:
1930 School of Art, Duisberg-Hamborn, Germany, under Josef Doppelfeld
Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany
1951 Fresco and mural painting, Ecole nationale superiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1951 fresco in Italy
Teaching:
Director of Art Academy of the Kibbutzim
Roth's work was influenced by Cubism and bears much in common with the work of compatriot painter Naftali Bezem. His colourful canvases contain biblical imagery and references to early Israeli pioneer culture.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2015 Home, Montefiore Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
2000 Retrospective, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
1997 Oil paintings, Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
1993 Solo Exhibition, Beit Yad Lebanim, Tiberias
1983 Oil paintings, ''Bet-Emanuel'', Ramat Gan
1980 Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
1977 Tiroche Gallery, Old Jaffa
1976 Hatzrif Art Gallery, Be'er Sheva
1957 Oil paintings, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1950 Katz Gallery, Tel AvivSelected exhibitions
2000: Chaim Atar Art Museum, Ein Harod, Israel: The Works of Leo Roth: An Exhibition

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014 Revelations, Jerusalem Print Workshop
2013 Group Exhibition, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Ein Harod Art Museum
2000 Group Exhibition, Hamishkan Le'omanut, Beth Meirov, Holon
1998 Where Have We Come from and Where Do We Go? Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva
1997 Yitzhak Sadeh and the Palmach - Painting and Sculpture, Petach Tikvah Museum of Art
1993 The Seam, Gallery of Art, Haifa University
1951, 1960, 1962 General Exhibition, Art in Isarel, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1958 Ten Years of Israeli Painting, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1952 Painting and Sculpture in Israel, An Exhibition arranged to the Museum's 20th Anniversary, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1944 Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists, Habima Theater Art Gallery, Tel Aviv


Selected Museum collections
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Museum of Art Ein Harod, Israel
Rockfeller art center, New York
S.U.N.Y. (State University of New York, Fredonia)
Students Center, Brooklyn College, New York
Greater VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada
"Jesode Hatora - Beth Jacob", Anvers, Belgium
Center Culturel d'Ekeren, Belgium
Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Ein Harod Art Museum, Israel
"Yad la'Banim", Petah Tikva, Israel
Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel
Beit Uri-Rami, Ashdot Ya'akov, Israel

1944 Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists
Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Building, Tel Aviv
Artists: Hermann Struck, Aaron Priver, Itzhak Danziger, Zvi Aldouby, Menahem Shemi, Moshe Castel, Yohanan Simon, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Marcel Janco Nachum Gutman, Leo Roth. See less