Chaim Kiewe
Chaim ( Egon ) Kiewe ( born October 8, 1912 in Dlottowen, East Prussia, † 12 May 1983; Bat Yam, Israel ) was a German -Israeli painter.
Early life
Chaim Kiewe 1912 in Dlottowen ( East Prussia ) was born as the son of Luis Kiewe and Johanna Toller, an assimilated Jewish family, which possessed a guest and horse farm. Already at a young age he moved to Berlin, where he attended school and received his high-school diploma.
In 1934 he emigrated to the Jewish children and youth organization Alijat Noar to Israel. There he came to the kibbutz Na'an. Here he began to paint and although self-taught. His early works show portraits of kibbutz residents, the surrounding landscapes and vam.
In the 40s he was a member of the Haganah and was arrested in 1947 by the British Mandate government in connection with Operation Agatha ( Black Sabbath ). Imprisoned, he was in prison Rafah. Here was a series of charcoal drawings, which documented the lives of the prisoners. After his release in 1948, it was during the Israeli War of Independence company commander in the Giv'ati Brigade.
Life as an artist
In the following years he designed sets and costumes for the theater. In 1950 his first exhibition as an independent artist held in Tel Aviv. In 1951 a first study trip to Paris at the Grande Chaumiere Academy, associated with an exhibition in the gallery " La Galerie " in the Rue de Seine. In 1953, he gave, together with the painters Joseph Zaritsky and Avigdor Steimatzky the kibbutz Na'an, courses in drawing and painting, which he continued alone later. In the years 1953 - 1959 he belonged to the group of artists Ofakim Hadaschim ( " New Horizons " ), in which he exhibited his paintings. In the following ten years he lived alternately in Paris and Bat Yam. In Bat Yam, he headed the local art museum ( Bat Yam Museum ). He also held their own, as well as group exhibitions with other artists, among others, in Antwerp, Paris ( Salon d' Art Moderne ), Brussels ( Museum of Modern Art ), New York ( Jewish Museum ) and Dusseldorf ( Bridge Gallery ). In 1969 he participated in the exhibition at the "Salon des Réalités Nouvelles " in Paris, and at the International Festival of Painting at Cagnes -sur -Mer, in part. By 1970, also followed by other exhibitions within the group of artists Ofakim Hadaschim.
From 1969 he lived exclusively in Bat Yam and there rose to an estimated teachers in art college Bezal'el in Jerusalem. Also, the Art Institute Avni in Tel Aviv, as well as the Institute of Plastic Arts in Bat Yam he taught. In 1974 he had a retrospective exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum, 1982, it launched an exhibition in Jerusalem Israel Museum.
Private
Chaim Kiewe died in 1983 in Bat Yam. He was married and had three children. His works are partly privately owned or are to be seen in public collections throughout the world.
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