Batia Grossbard Explained
| Batia Grossbard |
| Birth Date: | April 14, 1910 |
| Birth Place: | Ostrow, Poland |
| Death Date: | August 11, 1995 (85) |
| Death Place: | Haifa, Israel |
| Alma Mater: | Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts |
| Occupation: | Artist |
| Style: | Abstract Expressionism |
| Spouse: | Yehoshua Grossbard (Vielke Broda) |
| Children: | Mira Baron |
| Parents: | Eliyahu Gershon Freidkes Simchoni and Golda Rajza Freidkes |
| Awards: | Herman Struck Prize, Haifa Municipality (1971);Herman Struck Prize, Haifa Municipality (1997) |
Batia Friedkes Grossbard (April 14, 1910 – August 11, 1995) was a Polish-born Israeli painter influenced by American abstract expressionism.[1]
Biography
Grossbard attended and graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland. She worked with watercolor and oil paints, as well as producing lithographs.[2]
In 1938, she immigrated to Palestine. After resettling there, she served with the British Army and later settled in Haifa and married the painter Yehoshua Grossbard.[3]
In 1954, she studied at the atelier of André Lhote in Paris. She was a member of the Ein Hod artists' colony in Haifa and of the Artists and Sculptors Association in Israel.
In 1966, "Lines and Trees," a collection of her work, was published. Her work includes mountainscapes of the post-Six Day War period through the 1970s. Her later work was much more abstract.
Awards
- Herman Struck Prize, Haifa Municipality (1971)
- Herman Struck Prize, Haifa Municipality (1997)
Exhibitions
- Artists in Israel for the Defense at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion in Tel Aviv (July 25, 1967 - August 8, 1967)[4]
- General Exhibition, Art in Israel 1967 at the Tel Aviv Museum in Tel Aviv (September 17, 1967 - October 12, 1967)
- Art Festival, Painting & Sculpture in Israel 1969 at Ganei Hataarucha in Tel Aviv (September 3, 1969 - September 25, 1969)
- Painting and Sculpture Week at the Painters and Sculptors Association in Israel at Haifa and the North (September 27, 1969 - October 4, 1969)
- Drawings and Paintings at the Artists' House in Jerusalem (January 6, 1973 - January 24, 1973)
- Group Exhibition at the Haifa City Museum in Haifa (July 10, 1976 - July 31, 1976)
- Five Years to "Alon" at the Allon Museum in Jerusalem (1983)
- Paintings - Batia Grossbard at the Debel Gallery in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem (June 2, 1984 - June 21, 1984)
- Haifa - Portrait of a City at the Museum of Art in Haifa (1988)
- Modern Drawing - New Approaches at the Haifa Museum of Modern Art (January 30, 1988 - March 12, 1988)
- Group Exhibition at the Yad Labanim Museum in Petach-Tikva (October 12, 1991 - November 16, 1991)
- Batia Grossbard - Solo Exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery, Smilansky Cultural Center in Rehovot (May 28, 1994 - July 2, 1994)
- Solo Exhibition at the Gallery of Art, University of Haifa in Haifa (1996)
- Artists Messengers of Peace at the Artists' House in Jerusalem (1996)
- Batia Grossbard, The Large Paintings 1979-89 at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanities, Gallery of Art in Haifa (December 21, 1996 - February 13, 1997)
- Exhibition of Struck Prizewinners at the Painters and Sculptors Association in Israel at Haifa and the North (March 15, 1997 - April 1, 1997)
- Women Artists in Israeli Art - The 80's at Alternative Exhibition places in Haifa (1998)
- Vision of Light: A Century of Watercolor in Israel at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (December 1, 1998 - February 28, 1999)
- Batia Grossbard - Works on paper at the Ein-Hod Artists' Gallery, Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod (October 23, 1999 - November 10, 1999)
- Meeting in the Atelier: Kupferman and his Teachers at The Kupferman Collection House in Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot (2006)
- Salt of the Earth - Israeli Portraits at the Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies in Kibbutz Hazorea (June 7, 2008 - September 7, 2008)
- Group Exhibition at Zaritsky Artists House in Tel Aviv (July 5, 2018 - July 28, 2018)
References
- Web site: Artists: Israeli, 1970 to the Present Jewish Women's Archive. jwa.org. 2019-03-25.
- Web site: Information Center for Israeli Art The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. museum.imj.org.il. 2019-03-25.
- Book: Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Bloomsbury Academic. 2005. 0826462502. 106–107.
- Web site: Israel Museum Information Center for Israeli Art - Exhibitions Page. museum.imj.org.il. 2019-03-27.
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