Valerie Adler is a South African-born painter and designer.
Valerie Adler was born in South Africa and moved to England at the age of seventeen to study interior design at the Inchbald School of Design. [1] [2] In 1977, after twelve years in Britain, Adler moved to Israel. [2] There she studied the history of art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [3] She also took drawing lessons from Asher Rodnitsky. [1] In 1982 Adler returned to London to study at the Chelsea School of Art. [3] She returned to Israel in the early 1990s. [1]
Adler had her first solo exhibition at the Galleria Spazia Nuovo in Venice during 1986. [2] The following year she had an exhibition at the Soloman Gallery in London and in 1989 she had exhibitions at both the Julius Gottlieb Gallery and at Carmel College in Wellingford. [1] The Artspace Gallery in Jerusalem hosted an exhibition of Adler's work in 1995. [4] The Ben Uri Gallery in London holds examples of her work. [1]
Clara Birnberg was a British artist, illustrator, portraitist and sculptor. After her marriage to the artist Stephen Weinstein, they changed their surname to Winsten and both became Quaker humanists.
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem, Israel. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldest institution of higher education. It is named for the Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri, who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle. The art created by Bezalel's students and professors in the early 1900s is considered the springboard for Israeli visual arts in the 20th century.
Sandra Betty Blow was an English abstract painter and one of the pioneers of the British abstract movement of the 1950s. Blow's works are characteristically large scale, colourful abstract collages made from discarded materials.
Simeon Solomon was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who was noted for his depictions of Jewish life and same-sex desire. His career was cut short as a result of public scandal following his arrests and convictions for attempted sodomy in 1873 and 1874.
The Ben Uri Gallery & Museum is a registered museum and charity currently sited at 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, England. It features the work and lives of émigré artists in London, and describes itself as "The Art Museum for Everyone".
Naomi Blake née Zisel Dum was a British sculptor, whose work reflected her experience as a Holocaust survivor.
Dodo, born as Dörte Clara Wolff, was a German painter and illustrator of the New Objectivity.
Ruth Arion was a German-Israeli painter and enamel artist and one of the founders of Ein Hod Artists’ Village. Her works reflect her experiences as she moved from place to place in the Land of Israel from the 1930s through the 1990s.
Lilian Thirza Charlotte Holt (1898–1983) was a British artist, also known by her married name, Bomberg. She was a founding member of the Borough Group. Her dedication to her partner and family limited her career and opportunities as an artist.
Ruth Schloss was an Israeli painter and illustrator. Major themes in her work were Arabs, transition camps, children and women at eye-level. She expressed an egalitarian, socialist view via realism in her painting and drawing.
Eva Frankfurther was a German-born British artist known for her depictions of the immigrant communities of the East End of London in the 1950s.
Amy Julia Drucker was a British artist and educator of Jewish descent.
Pamela Drew was a British artist known for her paintings of marine and aviation subjects. Although Drew was born in the north of England she spent considerable periods of her career in Ireland.
Ruth Isabelle Collet née Salaman was a British painter, printmaker and illustrator.
Lily Delissa Joseph, néeSolomon, was a British artist and social campaigner active in the English suffrage movement.
Fay Pomerance née Levy was a British artist known for her paintings in pastel, tempera and in watercolours which were often on religious and spiritual subjects.
Hilde Goldschmidt was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. Facing persecution under the Nazi regime she sought refuge in Britain during the Second World War before establishing herself in Austria in the 1950s.
Edith Marguerite Galliner, née Goldschmidt, (1914–2000) was an Anglo-German artist who painted in acrylic and produced pottery, collages and etchings. Galliner was born in England but grew up in Germany only to return to England when the Nazi Party came to power in 1933. After the Second World War she divided her time between Britain and Germany and exhibited work in both countries.
Agathe Sorel is a London-based artist of Hungarian descent, specializing in painting, sculpture, printmaking and livres d’artiste. She is a Member of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, as well as a founding member of the Printmakers Council and was its Chairman in 1981-1983. She was one of the first artists who experimented with making objects and sculptures using print techniques.
Yemima Ergas Vroman is an Israeli painter who engages in drawing, sculpting, installation and three-dimensional objects in various media. The main theme that distinguishes her works is the "old" versus the "new" in the urban space. in its variety of aspects.