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Dina Merhav (; he, דינה מרחב; March 9, 1936 – October 19, 2022) was a Yugoslav-born Israeli sculptor.
In 1998 the city of Haifa awarded Merhav the "Herman Struck Best Artist of the Year" Prize. Merhav frequently visited her birth country and exhibited in the various museums across the Croatia. In 2013 Merhav opened an exhibition "Ptice u letu" (''Birds in Flight'') in Zagreb. She also published the poetry book "For You With Love". Merhav worked in her sculpture studio in moshav Nir Etzion and lived in the nearby Ein Hod artists' village.
Biography
Dina Gross (later Merhav) was born inVinkovci
Vinkovci () is a city in Slavonia, in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. The city's registered population was 28,247 in the 2021 census, the total population of the city was 31,057, making it the largest town of the county. Surrounde ...
to a Yugoslav History of the Jews in Croatia, Jewish family of Zlatko and Steffi Gross. During World War II her father, as a Royal Yugoslav Army officer, was captured and imprisoned in a List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, war camp in Germany. Merhav, her mother and rest of the family managed to escape to Split, Croatia, Split, from there to Switzerland through Italy. After the war they returned to Yugoslavia to be reunited with Dina's father. In 1949 the entire family made aliyah to Israel. In Israel she studied and graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Merhav died on October 19, 2022, at the age of 86.
Art career
After graduation Merhav worked as a graphic designer. She taught graphic design and sculpture at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, at the art department of University of Haifa and at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. From 1984 to 1985 Merhav studied sculpture at the University of Haifa. In 1984 she attended the stone sculpture seminar in Pietrasanta, Italy. Merhav created soaring sculptures of birds and angels from scrap iron.Awards and recognition
In 1998 the city of Haifa awarded Merhav the "Herman Struck Best Artist of the Year" Prize. Merhav frequently visited her birth country and exhibited in the various museums across the Croatia. In 2013 Merhav opened an exhibition "Ptice u letu" (''Birds in Flight'') in Zagreb. She also published the poetry book "For You With Love". Merhav worked in her sculpture studio in moshav Nir Etzion and lived in the nearby Ein Hod artists' village.
See also
*Israeli artReferences
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