Background
She was the daughter of Boris Schatz, who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Zohara ("Zahara") Schatz (later Sandow) was born in Jerusalem in 1916.
She was the daughter of Boris Schatz, who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Zohara ("Zahara") Schatz (later Sandow) was born in Jerusalem in 1916.
After studying at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs / National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Schatz rose to prominence in Israel and overseas. The lamp by Heifetz Manufacturing Company, United States., features a metal conical shade that projects light upward onto a metal disk for deflected illumination. lieutenant is one of a number of examples of her work that followed her father"s dualism: the pursuit of both fine art and crafts (or design).
The base of another more craft-oriented lamp is a sculptural form of a winding snake-like brass tube and bent PMMA with imbedded metal minutiae.
She also participated in the Venice Biennale of 1959 and designed the gate, built at the Bezalel Academy, of the President"s House, Jerusalem. She worked as an adviser on industrial design at the Israeli Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Schatz died in Jerusalem in 1999. 1951: award for a table lamp, Low-Cost Lighting Competition/Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Zahara Schatz: A Retrospective.
The Third Exhibition in the Schatz House Series, celebrating 100 Years of Israeli Art," The Artists" House, Jerusalem, 2006.
1951: award for a table lamp, Low-Cost Lighting Competition/Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1955: Israel Prize, for painting and sculpture 1954: medal of honor, Triennale di Milano 1959: Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture 1959: participation in the Venice Biennale 1960: Yad Vashem Prize, for a six-branch candelabrum 1991: Shoshanna Ish-Shalom Prize, Jerusalem.
Zahara and Bezalel rejected their father"s predilection for Romantic Classicism and his dogged development of a Jewish Eretz Israel style in favor of a European-American modernism.
