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Zahara Schatz, a.k.a. Zahara Shatz and Zaraha Sandow (Jerusalem, Palestine, 1916–Jerusalem, Israel, 1999), is an Israeli fine and decorative artist and daughter of Boris Schatz
Boris Schatz

Boris Schatz was a Russian-born Jewish artist and sculptor, who founded what is now known as the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem....
, who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel's national Art school. It is named after the Bible figure Bezalel, son of Uri , who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle ....
, as it is known today, in Jerusalem
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After studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des arts Décoratifs / National School of Decorative Arts in Paris
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, she rose to prominence in Israel
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 and overseas. She exhibited and won prestigious prizes in the U.S.
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 and Europe
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, including at the Milan Triennale, where she won a special award, and The Museum of Modern Art
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 in New York
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, where she was recognized for a 1951 lamp design.






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Zahara Schatz, a.k.a. Zahara Shatz and Zaraha Sandow (Jerusalem, Palestine, 1916–Jerusalem, Israel, 1999), is an Israeli fine and decorative artist and daughter of Boris Schatz
Boris Schatz

Boris Schatz was a Russian-born Jewish artist and sculptor, who founded what is now known as the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem....
, who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel's national Art school. It is named after the Bible figure Bezalel, son of Uri , who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle ....
, as it is known today, in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....


After studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des arts Décoratifs / National School of Decorative Arts in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, she rose to prominence in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 and overseas. She exhibited and won prestigious prizes in the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, including at the Milan Triennale, where she won a special award, and The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues....
 in New York
New York

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, where she was recognized for a 1951 lamp design. The lamp by Heifetz Manufacturing Company, U.S.
United States

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, features a metal conical shade that projects light upward onto a metal disk for deflected illumination. It is one of a number of examples of her work that followed her father's dualism: the pursuit of both fine art and crafts (or design). The base of another more craft-oriented lamp is a sculptural form of a winding snake-like brass tube and bent PMMA with imbedded metal minutiae.

She also participated in the Venice Biennale
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 of 1959 and designed the gate, built at the Bezalel Academy, of the President's House, Jerusalem.

Zaraha Schatz lived in a number of places—Israel
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, New York
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, and Northern California
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 where she was part of the Big Sur
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 artists'/writers' colony that included San Francisco sculptor Benny Bufano
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, author Henry Miller
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, and her brother Bezalel "Lilik" Schatz. She also lived in Berkeley
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, California
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, where she was close with Courtroom Sketch Artist Rosalie Ritz
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Rosalie Ritz was an award-winning journalist and courtroom artist who covered major United States trials in the 1960s through the 1990s. She worked with both CBS and Associated Press, and was presented with the Associated Press Award for Excellence in 1972....
, her husband Erwin Ritz and their daughter, Publisher and Managing Editor of The Environmentalist
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, .

Zahara and Bezalel rejected their father's predilection for Romantic Classicism and his dogged development of a Jewish Eretz-Israel style in favor of a European-American modernism.

Awards & positions


  • 1951 award for a table lamp, Low-Cost Lighting Competition/Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1955 Israel Prize for Art to Zahara Schatz for the Schatz family
  • 1954 medal of honor, Triennale di Milano
  • 1959 Dizengoff Prize
  • 1959 participation in the Venice Biennale
  • 1960 Yad Vashem
    Yad Vashem

    File:Yad Vashem BW 3.JPGYad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
     Prize for a six-branch candelabrum
  • 1991 Shoshanna Ish-Shalom Prize, Jerusalem
  • Adviser on industrial design at Ministry of Commerce and Industry.


Exhibition

  • "Zahara Schatz: A Retrospective. The Third Exhibition in the Schatz House Series, celebrating 100 Years of Israeli Art," The Artists' House, Jerusalem, 2006.


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