Background
Pazner Malkin was born in Philadelphia, United States of America, and emigrated to Israel in 1949. Her son Irad Malkin was born in 1951 in the United States.
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Education
They spent a year in Paris where Felice studied at the Sorbonne and painted at a studio in Bellevue.
Career
Her first studio was in Jerusalem’s Bet Hakerem neighborhood, where she painted and illustrated books In 1953, Pazner Malkin had her first one-woman show in Tel Aviv. She subsequently exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum, and produced Israel’s first artist-designed theater posters for the Habima, Cameri, and Matateh theater companies.
From 1956 to 1957, Pazner Malkin returned to Paris to study theatrical art and design with Jean-Marie Serreau, and to continue her studio work.
Pazner Malkin held several additional one-woman shows during these years as well as contributions to group shows. Her album of drawings inspired by the Song of Songs was published in the book Jonah Jones and the Song of Songs (Haifa, 1966).
She established, and directed, the Bet Rothschild Art School. In 1971 she moved to Jerusalem where she founded the Jewish-Arab Arts Center for Hebrew University’s Buber Institute and remained its director until 1975.
Pazner Malkin"s work has been shown in London, New York, Philadelphia, and as part of the James Michener Collection, in Austin, Texas.
A series of her drawings on the theme of ’Art as Love’ was published in three albums by Massada Press, and accompanied Yaakov Malkin’s text in the book Art as Love (Massada, 1975). Pazner Malkin and Yaakov Malkin also co-edited the Massada Lexicon of the Arts (1975). Pazner Malkin"s extensive series of paintings, ’Jerusalem People’ (1975–1981), was exhibited in part at the American Cultural Center in Jerusalem, and published by the Bialik Institute.
She contributed a series of drawings, ’Paris Vistas’, to Yaakov Malkin’s Vankaban (A cinematic novel) in 1993.
