Zvi Shor (1898-1979) - Still Life, Oil on Canvas, 1947.

Zvi Shor (1898-1979) - Still Life, Oil on Canvas, 1947.
Zvi Shorr (1898-1979) - Still Life, Oil on Canvas, 1947.

Signed and dated.

46x55cm.

Zvi Shorr, painter, born 1898, Satanaov, Podolia, Ukraine.Immigrated 1921, settled in Haifa. Lived later near Petah Tikvah. Between 1936-38 he lived and worked in Paris, where he met the masters of the Jewish Ecole de Paris including Chaim Soutime, and Yankel Adler. Painted mainly urban landscapes. Founded the first classes at the Petach Tikvah Museum of Art in painting, sculpture and ceramics. Died 1979. In 1996 The Yad Lebanim Museum of Petach Tikvah, where he was one of the initiators, and where he directed the painting studio, named a wing of its museum the Zvi Shorr Department of Art.

Education

1921-23 Painting with Prof. Herman Struck

Sculpture with sculptor, Eliezer Strich

1936-38 Advanced studies at the Grand Chaumiere, Paris, France

Teaching

1921 Reali High School, Haifa, arts & crafts

1939-48 Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha, painting

1939 Shine Teachers Seminary, Petach Tikva

Awards And Prizes

1939 Dizengoff Prize, for painting Hot Day, Tel Aviv

1948 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture

1948 Dizengoff Prize

1949 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture

1970 First International Art Exhibition, Nepal Association of Fine Arts, (NAFA), Letter of Recommendation

1978 Notable of Petach Tikva