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Abstract and Original - Aline B. Louchheim

Violently in contrast at the same gallery are the “compositions in plastic” by Zahara Shatz. Miss Shatz is one of the most gifted and least “tricky” of the sculptors exploring this new and challenging material, and one feels that...

New Plastic Art Cooked Up in Oven - The Milwaukee Journal

Plastic paintings lit from beneath. Plastic partitions with decor built into the wall. Plastic furniture reflecting the color of the carpet. These and more are foreseen by Palestinian Artist Zahara Schatz as features of a possible future era...

Zahara Schatz to Exhibit at Museum - The Santa Fe New Mexican

An exhibition by Zahara Schatz will open Tuesday at the Art Museum, about 20 paintings being included in the show. This is Miss Schatz’ second summer in Santa Fe. She is the daughter of the late Professor Boris Schatz, world known sculptor...

Work Of Founder Of Bezalel School, Son And Daughter On Exhibit At Arsuna Galleries

The late Boris Schatz, whose work, together with that of his son and daughter, Bezalel Schatz and Zahara Schatz, is being exhibited this week and next...

Planar Constructions

Miss Zahara Schatz has found a new technique in planar constructions thereby giving them their due place in the realm of art, and undoubtedly, introducing a new epoch in its history. This new medium which she employs shows that there...

Mobile Design

The mobile enriches sculpture with vigour and vitality, adding new temporal dimension: spontaneous movement transforms space into form. Spontaneity arises from reliance on the wind, rather than a mechanical motor. Movement as an...

Israel's artist family - Syd Applebaum

Lellikis a big man. He is tall, broad, with strong features and a bald head. Lellik is a famous artist. His media are oils, mobiles, wood, metal, cloth, — anything. One of his close friends claims he has no sense of humor. Another writes down...

Laminated Plastic Plate with Gold-and-Silver Design

By Zahara Schatz especially for unusualties inc. Zahara Schatz - Originally a painter, Miss Schatz "discovered” transparent plastic in 1943, and since then has devoted herself completely to design in this exciting new medium . . . with results...

A Moveable Feast - Meir Ronnen

The current exhibition of kinetic sculptures by Zahara Schatz is a remarkable example of filial continuity — and contrast. Her father was Prof. Boris Schatz, founder of the Bezalel School and M useum; he is the hero of the mammoth year-long...

Section of Matisse Chapel Designs Opened at Museum of Modern Art - Aline B. Louchheim

Two final rooms, containing full-scale designs for the chapel at Vence, France, now are open at the Museum of Modern Arts Matisse exhibition which, at the rate of...

Zahara's Chronology - Eva Wardi

1920s Zahara Schatz was born in Jerusalem 1916 (then Turkish governed Palestine) to Professor Boris Schatz (1866-1932) and Doctor Olga (b. Pevsner, 1881-1971). Zahara Schatz had a brother, painter Bezalel Schatz (1912-1978) and a...

Virtuosi of the Paint Brush In a Scattering of Shows - Alfred Frankenstein, 01/01/1944

Several virtuosi are introduced in the rather curious scattering of exhibitions that was placed on view last week in the public and private galleries. The San Francisco...

Girl Artist Creates Plexiglass Paintings - New York World-Telegram, 03/02/1947

Zahara Schatz, painter, presently is holding a one-man show of her creations in a blue room of The Pinacotheca, 20 W. 58th St., directly across the hall from the...

In the Art Galleries - New York Herald Tribune, 09/02/1947

With Palestine in the public eye, the work of Zahara Schatz, a native Palestinian whose first New York showing opened last week at the Pinacotheca, is of special interest. The artist studied in her native country and in France, becoming...

Young Palestine Artist Opens Museum Exhibit - San Francisco Chronicle, 14/12/1947

The exhibition of water colors, sanguine drawings, pen drawings, and decorative art by Zahara Schatz at the Santa Fe Art museum shows this young Palestinian artist...

Artists & Writers, 01/01/1949

New and recent sales include one of Zahara Schatz’ plastic plates, sold to the Art Department of the San Francisco Public Schools for its permanent collection of what can only be called artifacts. Newest line in craft work is plastics. Zahara...

Gust of Wind Creates New Art in Plastic Decor - Marcia Strousse, 09/09/1949

An "accident" in the laboratory, the kitchen or the art studio has often been responsible for opening new horizons of experimentations. Just a slip of the hand...

Artist Uses Window Screens To Create Novel Jewelry - Harry Harris, 15/09/1949

Until six years ago, Jerusalem-born Zahara Schatz created works of art with brushes and oil paints. Nowadays, in her New York studio, she uses a bunsen burner...

Why Not Modern Lamps, Too? - Joan Gahan, 27/03/1951

“People think nothing of having a modern car, a modern bathroom and a thoroughly modern kitchen. It’s about time for them to bring their living rooms up to date.” Zahara Schatz, Jerusalem-born painter and lamp designer, was...

Pioneers in Design Exhibit Their Best - Margaret Hohly, 07/05/1951

Under the title “Experimentals,” one of the most unusual exhibitions ever shown in an art gallery is now open to the public at the Art Alliance. All the galleries are devoted to, the exhibit, which features pioneer work in materials and...

Gallery Preview in New York - Charles Z. Offin, 01/12/1951

Bertha Schaefer offers a trio which includes a painter, a sculptor and an artist who fuses the techniques of painting and sculpture in her own original brand of "constructions”. The painter, Charles Rennick, concerns himself with...

Zahara Schatz Visits The Institute, 01/03/1952

On March 27 and 28, the Institute will entertain as its second Visiting Artist of the season Zahara Schatz of New York City. Miss Schatz, pictured on our cover, was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and comes from a family of prominent artists...

An Artist Works in Plastic - Margaret Anderson, 01/08/1952

For the past few years Zahara Schatz, a recognized painter and sculptor, has been making provocative new art forms in plastic. She is continuously fascinated with this unique medium and its endless possibilities, yet it cannot be said that...

Zahara Schatz - Ruth Seligman, 01/01/1954

“Talented, versatile, energetic” — these are some of the adjectives which describe Zahara Schatz. For her unusual contribution in developing new materials, such as plastics, for use in pure and decorative art and for her role in promoting...

A Family Show at Orphan Gallery - Miriam Dungan Cross, 09/04/1967

Because we knew Franz Sandow when he was a Berkeley boy called “Elliot," we attended the preview of the exhibit of his abstract figure sculpture and the various arts of his internationally recognized Israeli wife, Zahara Schatz, at the...

UC ‘Funkies' Overstated Mundanities - Bill C. Haigwood, 21/04/1967

“It's a groove to stick your finger down your throat and see what comes up.” Harold Paris, whose work is just one aspect of UC’s Funk Art exhibit, puts it where it is definitely at. Funk (fun? junk? according to Webster: “to shrink back in...

Daughter of a Legend, 01/01/1978

Sculptress Zahara Schatz is the daughter of the almost legendary figure who is known as "the father of Israeli art." Founder of the Bezalel School of Art and Design, Bezalel Schatz was the first director of the Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem...

Sculpture show honoring Israel, 28/05/1978

Zahara Schatz has an exhibit of Kinetic Sculptures. Laminated Plastics and Mixed Media at the America-Israel Cultural House. 4 East 54th Street. The exhibit is in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the State of Israel and opened...

Daughter of founder ‘Worthy of Bezalel’ - Meir Ronnen, 01/01/1990

The new Bezalel: From Schatz to Scopus The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design today celebrates its move to Mount Scopus with a series of festive ceremonies. The huge new campus will be ready for the new academic year starting in...

Sculpture Instalation, 01/01/1995

The mobile enriches sculpture with vigour and vitality, aing a new temporal dimension: spontaneous movement transforms space into form. Spontaneity arises from reliance on the wind, rather than a mechanical motor. Movement as an...

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