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CONCISE
BIOGRAPHY
"I was born in Czechoslovakia in the year 1925, of traditional
parents. I spent my youth partly in a little town on the Moravian border,
and to a greater part in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
Having been attracted by the arts from early childhood on, I studied
functional art at a school in Bratislava, as long as this was still
possible under the Nuremberg Laws which, at that time, were also in
force in Slovakia.
In 1942 I was taken to a concentration camp in Poland and at the beginning
of 1945 I succeeded in escaping together with a friend of mine. Until
our liberation by the Russians we were hiding in the forests of Northern
Poland. At the end of the War I found myself wandering about Europe,
together with thousands of survivors from the Holocaust, until, in 1948
I came to Israel via the Camps of Cyprus.
From 1954 onwards I have been a permanent resident of the Artists Village
at Ein-Hod, together with my family. In the course of that time I studied
and worked in most of the creative techniques of the arts. During various
periods of my life at Ein-Hod I taught painting and handicraft at different
schools.
In 1965 I gave up teaching and have since devoted myself exclusively
to pure art."
Gedalia Ben Zvi.
Exhibitions |
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| 1962-1963 |
Design
Exhibition, Tel Aviv |
1964 |
Middle
East Fair, Tel Aviv |
| 1965 |
Ceramic
Mural for school in Kiryat Gat a the Housing Exhibition in Tel Aviv |
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1966 |
Israel
Fair and Exhibition, Paris
One man show, Ein Hod
International Symposium on “Ceramics in Architecture”
Tel Aviv Ceramic Museum
Museum or Modern Arts, Heavy
Museum of Acre |
1968 |
Painters
Israeliens dand I’Art de Gobelins, Jerusalem |
1971 |
One man show, Museum Bat Yam, Tel Aviv |
1972 |
One man show, “Fairmont Galleries”, Dallas, Texas, USA |
1973 |
One man show, Den Haag, Holland |
| 1974 |
Israeli Art in Chicago Collections
Spertus Museum, Chicago |
| 1976 |
One man show, International Artists House, Vienna
One man show, “Galerie in der Blutgasse”, Vienna
“Ein Hod Tapestries”, Haifa University |
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