Shaul Shats (born 1944) (variant names Shaul Shatz, Saul Shatz) is an Israeli painter, printmaker and illustrator, born in 1944 in Kibbutz Sarid,

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. He studied at the

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( he, בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldes ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

(1965–66), the Rietveld Academy,

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(1967), and the Freie Akademie,

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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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shats, Shaul Living people 1944 births Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni Israeli painters