Daughter of the famous photographer and film pioneer Yaakov Ben-Dov, Hannah Ben-Dov (1919 - 2009) is an Israeli artist born in Jerusalem. After studying in London, she moved to Paris in the late... Read full biography
Daughter of the famous photographer and film pioneer Yaakov Ben-Dov, Hannah Ben-Dov (1919 - 2009) is an Israeli artist born in Jerusalem. After studying in London, she moved to Paris in the late 1940s to further her training with Brancusi, where she held her first exhibition in 1948. Her oil... Read full biography
Daughter of the famous photographer and film pioneer Yaakov Ben-Dov, Hannah Ben-Dov (1919 - 2009) is an Israeli artist born in Jerusalem. After studying in London, she moved to Paris in the late 1940s to further her training with Brancusi, where she held her first exhibition in 1948. Her oil paintings, which seem to allow great freedom of composition, are in fact the result of long reflection and patient maturation. Close to Joan Mitchell, Hannah Ben-Dov is part of the lyrical abstraction... Read full biography
Daughter of the famous photographer and film pioneer Yaakov Ben-Dov, Hannah Ben-Dov (1919 - 2009) is an Israeli artist born in Jerusalem. After studying in London, she moved to Paris in the late 1940s to further her training with Brancusi, where she held her first exhibition in 1948. Her oil paintings, which seem to allow great freedom of composition, are in fact the result of long reflection and patient maturation. Close to Joan Mitchell, Hannah Ben-Dov is part of the lyrical abstraction movement. In 1999, Jacques Busse wrote of her: "Her business as a painter is light - but light trapped in the thousand prisms of nature, light turned into color. Ben-Dov possesses all colors, their infinite modulations, from the darkest to the lightest,... Read full biography
Daughter of the famous photographer and film pioneer Yaakov Ben-Dov, Hannah Ben-Dov (1919 - 2009) is an Israeli artist born in Jerusalem. After studying in London, she moved to Paris in the late 1940s to further her training with Brancusi, where she held her first exhibition in 1948. Her oil paintings, which seem to allow great freedom of composition, are in fact the result of long reflection and patient maturation. Close to Joan Mitchell, Hannah Ben-Dov is part of the lyrical abstraction movement. In 1999, Jacques Busse wrote of her: "Her business as a painter is light - but light trapped in the thousand prisms of nature, light turned into color. Ben-Dov possesses all colors, their infinite modulations, from the darkest to the lightest, and it is these colors, juxtaposed, superimposed or opposed, that are also the very form of his paintin... Read full biography