Shlomith Haber-Schaim (; born 1926) is an Israeli artist.

Biography

Shlomith Haber-Schaim was born in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

in 1926. Her mother was the artist Rivkah Rieger Kaplan. She studied art in the new

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design () 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 oldest institution of higher education and is considered the ...

, with

Mordecai Ardon Mordecai Ardon (; 13 July 1896 – 18 June 1992) was an Israeli painter. Biography Max Bronstein (later Mordecai Ardon) was born in Tuchów, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, now Poland). He pursued architecture between 1921 and 1925 in the Bauh ...

, and in

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. After completing her studies she moved to

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. In 2005 she returned to Jerusalem and settled in

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. Her work is in the collection of the

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Awards and prizes

* 1983 Artist-in-residence, Burston Graphic Center, Jerusalem * 1984 Artist-in-residence, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem * 1994 Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, USA * 2014 Artist-in-residence, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy

References

External links

Shlomith Haber-Schaim - Paintings, Prints and Drawings 1949-2019
* 1926 births Living people Artists from Tel Aviv Israeli women painters 20th-century Israeli sculptors 21st-century Israeli sculptors 21st-century Israeli women artists 20th-century Israeli women sculptors 21st-century women sculptors {{Israel-artist-stub