Mid 20th Century Gedalia Ben Zvi Israeli Bronze Sculpture Lovers Embrace Abstract Modernist Ein Hod Israel

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Bronze sculpture signed in Hebrew and numbered from small edition of 6

BIOGRAPHY
"I was born in Czechoslovakia in the … Read more Bronze sculpture signed in Hebrew and numbered from small edition of 6

BIOGRAPHY
"I was born in Czechoslovakia in the year 1925, of traditional parents. I spent my youth partly in a little town on the Moravian border, and to a greater part in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
Having been attracted by the arts from early childhood on, I studied functional art at a school in Bratislava, as long as this was still possible under the Nuremberg Laws which, at that time, were also in force in Slovakia.
In 1942 I was taken to a concentration camp in Poland and at the beginning of 1945 I succeeded in escaping together with a friend of mine. Until our liberation by the Russians we were hiding in the forests of Northern Poland. At the end of the War I found myself wandering about Europe, together with thousands of survivors from the Holocaust, until, in 1948 I came to Israel via the Camps of Cyprus.
From 1954 onwards I have been a permanent resident of the Artists Village at Ein-Hod, together with my family. In the course of that time I studied and worked in most of the creative techniques of the arts. During various periods of my life at Ein-Hod I taught painting and handicraft at different schools.
In 1965 I gave up teaching and have since devoted myself exclusively to pure art."
Gedalia Ben Zvi.

Exhibitions

1962-1963
Design Exhibition, Tel Aviv
1964
Middle East Fair, Tel Aviv
1965
Ceramic Mural for school in Kiryat Gat a the Housing Exhibition in Tel Aviv
1966
Israel Fair and Exhibition, Paris
One man show, Ein Hod
International Symposium on “Ceramics in Architecture”
Tel Aviv Ceramic Museum
Museum or Modern Arts, Heavy
Museum of Acre
1968
Painters Israeliens dans I’Art de Gobelins, Jerusalem
Ein Hod Artists Village - Tenths Year Anniversary Exhibition
1963, Artists: Zvi Aldouby, Marcel Janco, Rudi Lehmann, Moshe Mokady, Aviva Margalit Mambush, Yohanan Simon, Dov Feigin, Ovadia Alkara, Mark Tochilkin.
1971
One man show, Museum Bat Yam, Tel Aviv
1972
One man show, “Fairmont Galleries”, Dallas, Texas, USA
1973
One man show, Den Haag, Holland
1974 Israeli Art in Chicago Collections
Spertus Museum, Chicago
1976 One man show, International Artists House, Vienna
One man show, “Galerie in der Blutgasse”, Vienna
“Ein Hod Tapestries”, Haifa University
1978
Shagal house, Haifa
1979
Israelische Kunstmesse Zuspa, Zurich, Switzerland
1984
One man show, Wilfrid Museum, Hazorea
Petit Palais, Geneva
1990
Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska Fairbank Association
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
1991
Fine Arts Museum, Mobie, Alabama
Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York
1992
Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas
Lakeview Museum of Art and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
Fine Arts Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Sangre de ChristoArt Center, Pueblo, Colorado
1998
One man show, Gallery Ein Hod
1993-2004
Gallery Ein Hod
2003
Millennium Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic See less