Chana Orloff Art

This exquisite bronze statue by Chana Orloff portrays two intertwined female dancers. It is signed by Orloff on the top of the bronze base and stamped with the Foundry "Susse Fondeur...

CHANA ORLOFF 1888-1968 Tsaré Constantinovska, Ukraine 1895 - 1968 Tel Aviv (Ukrainian / French) Title : Mother Holding her Child, 1961 Techn...

actual sheet is 14.60 inches by 10.30 inches Chana Orloff (12 July 1888 – 16 December 1968) was a Russian-French-Israeli Art deco and figurative art sculptor. Hana Orloff was born in Starokonstantinov Russian Empire (now Ukraine). She immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1905 and settled in Jaffa, where she found a job as a cutter and seamstress. Zvi Nishri (Orloff), the pioneer in physical education in Israel, was her brother. She joined Hapoel Hatzair workers movement. After five years in the country, she was offered a teaching position in cutting and dressmaking at Gymnasia Herzliya. She went to Paris to study fashion but chose art instead, enrolling in sculpture classes at the Académie Russe in Montparnasse. In 1916, she married Ary Justman, a Warsaw-born writer and poet. The couple had a son, but Ary died of influenza in the epidemic of 1919. When the Nazis invaded Paris, Orloff fled to Switzerland with her son and the Jewish painter Georges Kars. In February 1945, Kars committed suicide in Geneva, after which Orloff returned to Paris, to find that her house had been ransacked and the sculptures in her studio destroyed. In Paris, Orloff became friendly with other young Jewish artists, among them Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Chaim Soutine, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1913, she exhibited in the Salon d'Automne. After the establishment of the State of Israel, Orloff began spending an increasing amount of time there. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art held an exhibition of 37 of her sculptures in 1949. She remained in Israel for about a year in order to complete a sculpture of David Ben-Gurion, The Hero Monument to the defenders of Ein Gev and The Motherhood Monument in memory of Chana Tuckman who died during the 1947–1949 Palestine war. In addition to monuments, Orloff sculpted portraits of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and future Prime Minister Levi Eshkol; the architects Pierre Chareau, and Auguste Perret; painters Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and Per Krohg; and the poets Hayyim Nahman Bialik, and Pierre Mac Orlan. Orloff died in Israel on December 16, 1968. References Félix Marcilhac, Chana Orloff, Galerie Marcilhac Raful Eitan (1992). A Soldier's Story: The Life and Times of an Israeli War Hero. Hersh Fenster, Undzere Farpainikte Kinstler, Paris, 1951, p. 200 Birnbaum, Paula J. (2015) 'Chana Orloff', in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 1: 23, Routledge Bibliography Birnbaum, Paula J. (forthcoming, 2017) Chana Orloff: A Modern Woman Sculptor of the School of Paris, Brandeis University Press. Birnbaum, Paula J. Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2011. Kikoïne, Yankel, Chana Orloff, Paris, Musée Bourdelle, 1988 Kofler, Hana, Chana Orloff: Line & Substance, 1912-1968. Tefen: the Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park, 1993. Marcilhac, Félix. Chana Orloff, Paris: Editions de l’Amateur, 1991. Musée Rodin, Chana Orloff; sculptures et dessins, Paris, Musée Rodin, 1971, Richard de la Fuente, Véronique, Dada à Barcelone, 1914-1918: Chronique de l'avant-garde artistique parisienne en exil en Catalogne pendant la grande guerre: Francis Picabia, Manolo Hugue, Serge Charchoune, Marie Laurencin, Olga Sacharoff...