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Shoshana Heimann
UNTITLED FIGURES (LINES AND SHAPES AGAINST TEXTURAL BACKGROUND)

1959

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As fate would have it, sculptor, painter and printmaker Shoshana Heimann (1923-2009) did not live to see her retrospective installed at both the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa and the Wilfrid Israel Museum at Kibbutz Hazorea. She died at 86, one month before the openings. Throughout her long career, Heimann traveled East and West, from New York and Paris to Nepal and Japan, always in search of the essence of culture and the spirit of time and place: elements that would give more meaning to her artistic endeavors. There were long periods where she stopped sculpting altogether, working more in two-dimensional woodcuts, paintings and drawings. But she would always come back to her initial love - carving in wood. Into the 1960s, Heimann's handling of structures and volumes in her figurative sculptures became more reflective, dignified with beautifully controlled surfaces and less concerned with the content of persona and their psychological attributes. In the works Woman on a Jackal (1963), Seated Man (1963), Fallen Angel (1962) and Two Heads (1963), there is a definite Brancusian conviction in the stylized manner with which Heimann has carved and finished the forms. After the euphoria of the Six Day War, followed by the trauma of the Yom Kippur War, Heimann ceased to sculpt and instead devoted herself to creating small two-dimensional eulogies. Skulls, mummies, jackals and ferocious diving birds were paralleled by her major theme, the Sacrifice of Isaac - a subject she treated in drawings, paintings and prints and whose main protagonist in the drama was the angel (in the form of spreading wings), not Abraham, nor Isaac, nor the ram. Student of Israeli sculptor Rudy Lehman, Shoshana Heimann (1923-2009) developed a distinct language in wood and prints, interweaving the emerging Israeli culture with modern primitivism. Her feminine responsiveness to simple human subjects and her strong sculptural carved line blend into far-reaching aesthetic statements, carrying identity and creativity - a lively source of inspiration for contemporary artists. Shoshana Heimann was a well known Israeli artist who worked for seven decades in sculpture, painting, drawing, book illustration and prose/poetry writings. Escaping the onslaught of Nazism, Heimann immigrated to Palestine from Germany with her parents in 1933 and settled in Haifa in close proximity to the studio occupied by the sculptor Rudi Lehmann and his wife, the potter Hedwig Grossmann. As a 10-year-old, she could only grasp the sculptural rudiments of what she witnessed in Bat Galim and it wasn't until years later, after curtailed studies at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, that Lehmann became her mentor and most influential teacher. After studying at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts, she started sculpting in wood as a student of Rudi Lehmann. Later, she continued her studies in the Accademia di Bel Arte, Florence, and in the Ecole de Beaux Art, Paris. By the 1950s, Heimann had already made her mark as a dedicated wood carver, creating reductive primal works such as Pregnant Woman, Woman with Dove, Father and Son, The First Ones and The Last of the Thirty-Five. The last piece is a memorial to the bravery of the Lamed Heh (The 35), a band of Palmah soldiers who were killed during their attempt to reach the embattled Etzion Bloc during the 1948 War of Independence. In her early work, representational details were left out and replaced by an intense and clear solid form. This process led, later on, to the creation of her more abstract and anonymous archetypical figures. Heimann was one of the founders of the Ein Hod artist colony. Exhibitions Presented solo exhibition and group exhibition in leading galleries and museums of Israel and abroad. The Jerusalem Artists House (1950, 1959) Haifa University Gallery(1986) Düsseldorf Guest Artists’ Studio (1992-2002) Ramat-Gan Museum of Israeli Art (1994) Education 1936-38 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem 1939 Advanced studies, with Israeli Sculptor, Rudi Lehman 1946-48 Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy 1949 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. Awards and Prizes 1948 Young Artist Prize 1950-1951, Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1967 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1967 UNESCO and Prince Rainier Prize at Biennale for Plastic Arts, Monaco 1969 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1976 Research Grant at Art Institutions, D.A.A.D, Germany 1976 Research Grant, The British Council 1992 Artist-in-residence, Dusseldorf, Germany 1995 Artist-in-residence, Dusseldorf, Germany Academia 1976-79 Haifa University, Creative Art Department, Chairman Sculpture symposiums: Yugoslavia 1963-65, Denmark 1997 , Korea 1999 Guest artist at the Düsseldorf Cultural Department studio (annually), 1992-2002. Her works are held by many private and public collections in Israel and abroad.
  • Creator:
    Shoshana Heimann (1923 - 2009, German)
  • Creation Year:
    1959
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)Width: 16.5 in (41.91 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38211841932
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