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Chana Orloff

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Chana Orloff

Birth
Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytska, Ukraine
Death
16 Dec 1968 (aged 80)
Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Burial
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel Add to Map
Plot
גוש 5 אזור 2 שורה 1א מקום 12
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Sculptor. She moved to Paris fromUkraine in the early twentieth century, and became member of the pioneer art community in Palestine under the British mandate, and decided to study art, and enrolled in sculpture classes at the Académie Russe in Montparnasse. She is best known for her sculpted portraits of famous people. Her subjects included the painters, Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani, the poets, Fleg, and Mac Orlan, the architects, Chareau and Auguste Perret, and future Israeli Prime Minister Levy Eshkol.
Sculptor. She moved to Paris fromUkraine in the early twentieth century, and became member of the pioneer art community in Palestine under the British mandate, and decided to study art, and enrolled in sculpture classes at the Académie Russe in Montparnasse. She is best known for her sculpted portraits of famous people. Her subjects included the painters, Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani, the poets, Fleg, and Mac Orlan, the architects, Chareau and Auguste Perret, and future Israeli Prime Minister Levy Eshkol.


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  • Created by: julia&keld
  • Added: Apr 14, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51088970/chana-orloff: accessed ), memorial page for Chana Orloff (12 Jul 1888–16 Dec 1968), Find a Grave Memorial ID 51088970, citing Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel; Maintained by julia&keld (contributor 46812479).