Born in Jaffa, the daughter of immigrants from Bulgaria, Ziona Tagger was the first Israeli-born woman artist. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem but found its aesthetic traditionalism (for example, its adherence to strictly representational art) too restrictive and moved to Paris to continue her training. When she returned to Mandate Palestine, she took part in exhibitions of the young modernist artists. She was known for her portraits and landscapes, whose style drew on cubism and naïve art.
Before Talpiot was built the King of the Winds used to rule over the entire region: and all his ministers and servants, mighty and stubborn winds, dwelled there with him and blew over mountain and…
Though he was born and lived all his life in North America, Norman Leibovitch’s oeuvre included not only depictions of the Montreal neighborhood where he grew up and Canadian landscapes, but many…
Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land…