Chana Orloff

, Also called Chana Orloff Hanna Orloff, ( born July 12, 1888 in Kostjantyniwka, Ukraine, † December 18, 1968 in Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli sculptor who was born in Ukraine.

Biography

Chana Orloff immigrated with her ​​Jewish family in 1904 after the pogroms of the Ukraine into the British Mandate of Palestine. After six years, she moved to Paris, where she enrolled in the École nationale supérieure des arts Décoratifs de Paris. After one year, 1911, she moved to the Académie Russe at Montparnasse to begin an education in sculpture. There she came in contact with the artists Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin and Ossip Zadkine.

Work

In 1913 they presented their works, first at the Salon d'Automne, then in the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Independants. Since then, it has been attributed to artists of the Ecole de Paris.

Chana Orloff and Amedeo Modigliani

As Orloff, the eighteen year old art student Jeanne Hebuterne get to know who had previously been exhibited in Tsuguharu Fujita, she was introduced in March 1917 Modigliani.

Chana Orloff son

In 1917 Orloff married the poet Ary Justman, with whom she had a son together Didi. Justman died in 1919 at the Spanish flu. Many of their works that they have created after the subject: My son, Didi, children, maternity, etc..

Exhibitions

In 1928 they presented in New York, Zurich, Tel Aviv ( from 1935 in the then open the Tel Aviv Museum ), Paris ( Petit Palais ) and went to Tel Aviv in 1949. Numerous works were now the subject of animal figures.

The Second Veltkrieg she spent as a refugee with her son in Geneva, Switzerland. After the war came her big break and recognition. In Europe, the U.S. and Israel were the retrospective exhibitions. In Israel, her work was initially attributed to the German school, Cubist school and the Jewish School of Paris. While preparing a major exhibition of her work in Tel Aviv Chana Orloff passed away in 1968.