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Shaul Shats (born 1944) (variant names Shaul Shatz, Saul Shatz) is an
Israeli painter,
printmaker and
illustrator, born in 1944 in
Kibbutz Sarid,
Israel
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. He studied at the
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
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,
Jerusalem
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(1965–66), the
Rietveld Academy,
Amsterdam
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(1967), and the
Freie Akademie,
The Hague
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(1967). Shats taught at the
Bezalel Academy from 1978–82. He won the
Israel Museum Prize for Illustration (1990), the Jerusalem Prize (1992), the Ben Yitzhak Prize for Illustration of Israeli Children's Books (1992), and the Ish-Shalom Prize.
Shats continues to live and work in Jerusalem.
Selected exhibitions
* 2007: ''Ella Gallery'', Jerusalem
* 2005: ''Jerusalem Artists’ House'', Jerusalem
* 2004: ''Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel'', University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haif
(online catalogue)* 2003: ''Bineth Gallery'', Tel-Aviv
* 1984: ''Cardo Gallery'', Jerusalem
* 1971: ''Little Gallery'', Jerusalem
* 1969: ''Engel Gallery'', Jerusalem
Selected collections
* ''Israel Museum'', Jerusalem
* ''Tel Aviv Museum of Art''
* ''Stedelijk Museum'', Amsterdam
References
* Ayal, Avishay, and Yoram Bar-Gal. ''Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel''
xhibition catalogue Haifa: University of Haifa Art Gallery, 2004.
* ''Shaul Shats: Paintings''
xhibition catalogue Jerusalem: Cardo Gallery, 1984.
External links
Israeli Art Centre(Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Shaul Shats
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Living people
1944 births
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni
Israeli painters