Dalia Amotz (12 August 1938 - 27 November 1994) was an Israeli photographer.
Biography
Dalia Amotz, born in
Kibbutz
A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...
Gan Shmuel
Gan Shmuel ( he, גַּן שְׁמוּאֵל, ''lit.'' Shmuel's Garden) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in Haifa District, east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . The kibbu ...
, she moved to Jerusalem from 1962. She was the daughter of Yaffa and Isaac Gleicher. In 1973 she presented her first solo exhibition, entitled "Dir Samit". In 1990 she won an Oscar Handler Prize from the Ghetto Fighters' Kibbutz. In 2000, an exhibition of her works was held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art entitled "The Dark Land, Fields of Light" as part her posthumously receiving the Constantiner Prize.
She died in 1994.
Collections
Dalia Amotz works are part of
Israel Museum
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in Jerusalem.
Awards and recognition
* 1977 The Enrique Kavlin Photography Prize, The
Israel Museum
The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...
, Jerusalem
* 1990 Oskar Handler Award,
Ghetto Fighters' House
The Ghetto Fighters' House ( he, בית לוחמי הגטאות, ''Beit Lohamei Ha-Getaot''), full name, Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Documentation and Study Center, was founded in 1949 by members of Kibbut ...
* 2000 The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist,
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...
See also
Visual arts in Israel
References
External links
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Dalia Amotzat the Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
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1938 births
1994 deaths
Jewish Israeli artists
Israeli photographers
Israeli women photographers