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Sima Slonim BIOGRAPHY
1910 Jaffa, Israel - 1999. Known for: Abstraction, landscape and figurative painting.
1910-1999. Born in Jaffa, Israel. Being the daughter of the Rabbi Shneor Zalman Slonim who was born in Hebron, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Jaffa, Sima was required to conceal her... Read full biography
1910-1999. Born in Jaffa, Israel. Being the daughter of the Rabbi Shneor Zalman Slonim who was born in Hebron, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Jaffa, Sima was required to conceal her preoccupation with Painting. Nonetheless, she began to take weekend painting lessons under the artist,... Read full biography
1910-1999. Born in Jaffa, Israel. Being the daughter of the Rabbi Shneor Zalman Slonim who was born in Hebron, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Jaffa, Sima was required to conceal her preoccupation with Painting. Nonetheless, she began to take weekend painting lessons under the artist, Yitzhak Frenkel as well as the painters Litvinovski and Mokedi. With the help of her older sister, Menuha, she went on to study Fine Arts in Paris of the mid 30s of the 20th Century. Whilst in Paris,... Read full biography
1910-1999. Born in Jaffa, Israel. Being the daughter of the Rabbi Shneor Zalman Slonim who was born in Hebron, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Jaffa, Sima was required to conceal her preoccupation with Painting. Nonetheless, she began to take weekend painting lessons under the artist, Yitzhak Frenkel as well as the painters Litvinovski and Mokedi. With the help of her older sister, Menuha, she went on to study Fine Arts in Paris of the mid 30s of the 20th Century. Whilst in Paris, Slonim worked as a nanny for a Jewish family and studied painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in the Montparnasse district. Upon returning to Israel in 1938, she settled in Haifa and in the year 1953 she joined the founders of the artist... Read full biography
1910-1999. Born in Jaffa, Israel. Being the daughter of the Rabbi Shneor Zalman Slonim who was born in Hebron, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Jaffa, Sima was required to conceal her preoccupation with Painting. Nonetheless, she began to take weekend painting lessons under the artist, Yitzhak Frenkel as well as the painters Litvinovski and Mokedi. With the help of her older sister, Menuha, she went on to study Fine Arts in Paris of the mid 30s of the 20th Century. Whilst in Paris, Slonim worked as a nanny for a Jewish family and studied painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in the Montparnasse district. Upon returning to Israel in 1938, she settled in Haifa and in the year 1953 she joined the founders of the artist village of Ein Hod. Slonim’s paintings include landscapes, figures as well as abstraction. Her painterly figurative wor... Read full biography
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1910-1999
Born in Jaffa, Israel.
Being the daughter of the Rabbi Shneor Zalman Slonim who was born in Hebron, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Jaffa, Sima was required to conceal her preoccupation with Painting. Nonetheless, she began to take weekend painting lessons under the artist, Yitzhak Frenkel as well as the painters Litvinovski and Mokedi.
With the help of her older sister, Menuha, she went on to study Fine Arts in Paris of the mid 30s of the 20th Century. Whilst in Paris, Slonim worked as a nanny for a Jewish family and studied painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in the Montparnasse district. Upon returning to Israel in 1938, she settled in Haifa and in the year 1953 she joined the...But wait, there's more...
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