Leo Roth, Painter. born1914, Poland. 1920 Moved to Germany. Immigrated to Eretz Israel (then Mandatory Palestine) in 1933.
Died December 2002.
First settled in Tel Aviv, later moved to Kibbutz Afikim.
Studies
Beaux Arts, Paris
1951 fresco in Italy and France.
Teaching
Director of Art Academy of the Kibbutzim.
Prize
1959 Jordan Valley Prize for Painting.
Retrospective Exhibition
2000 Shepherd of Longings, Ein Harod Art Museum, Israel.
Leo Roth (1914-2002), also known as Lior Roth, was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Austria-Hungary.
In 1920, Roth moved to Germany and, in 1933, immigrated to Palestine. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completed frescoes in Italy and France in the 1950s. Roth first settled in Tel Aviv, then moved to Kvutzat Kinneret, then finally to Kibbutz Afikim where he remained until his death. He served as Director of the Art Academy of the Kibbutzim. In 1959, he was awarded the Jordan Valley Prize for Painting. Roth exhibited in the United States, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. He died in 2002.
Roth's work was influenced by Cubism and bears much in common with the work of compatriot painter Naftali Bezem. His colourful canvases contain biblical imagery and references to early Israeli pioneer culture.
Leo Roth exhibited in Israel, U.S.A., Mexico, Spain and Holland.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Home, Montefiore Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
2000 Retrospective, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
1997 Oil paintings, Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
1993 Solo Exhibition, Beit Yad Lebanim, Tiberias
1992 Oil Paintings 1989-1992, L. Roth Gallery, Kibbutz Afikim
1983 Oil paintings, ''Bet-Emanuel'', Ramat Gan
1980 Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
1977 Tiroche Gallery, Old Jaffa
1976 Hatzrif Art Gallery, Be'er Sheva
1957 Oil paintings, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1950 Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Revelations, Jerusalem Print Workshop
2013 Group Exhibition, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Ein Harod Art Museum
2000 Group Exhibition, Hamishkan Le'omanut, Beth Meirov, Holon
1998 Where Have We Come from and Where Do We Go? Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva
1997 Yitzhak Sadeh and the Palmach - Painting and Sculpture, Petach Tikvah Museum of Art
1993 The Seam, Gallery of Art, Haifa University
1951, 1960, 1962 General Exhibition, Art in Isarel, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1958 Ten Years of Israeli Painting, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1952 Painting and Sculpture in Israel, An Exhibition arranged to the Museum's 20th Anniversary, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1944 Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists, Habima Theater Art Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Works of Leo Roth are included in the following museums:
Rockfeller art center, New York
S.U.N.Y. (State University of New York, Fredonia)
Students Center, Brooklyn College, New York
Greater VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada
"Jesode Hatora - Beth Jacob", Anvers, Belgium
Center Culturel d'Ekeren, Belgium
Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Ein Harod Art Museum, Israel
"Yad la'Banim", Petah Tikva, Israel
Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel
Beit Uri-Rami, Ashdot Ya'akov, Israel
And in very many private collections throughout the world.
"A creative artist is endowed with memories and experiences stemming from his forefathers and generations past.
This heritage obliges him to be their voice.
Yet his creation and whatever he does - all this is guided by superior forces which are beyond his control.
And all he is able to do, then - his duty throughout his life and work - is to learn to improve his craft and performance. From this follows that neither technical perfection nor execution in the spirit and style of the age, do of necessity, enhance the artist's work with heightened spiritually. So if there are many whose destiny it is to devote their entire lives to sacred task, and even attain impressive achievements thanks to the society of which they are part - only few, indeed, are the chosen ones and the priests...
And it is the generations to come that will judge".
Leo Roth
2000 Shepherd of Longings, Ein Harod Art Museum
Roth’s teacher printed the artist’s book from linoleum blocks as a parting gift to Leo when he left for Israel.
Leo Roth’s early drawings exhibited here, mark by their very presence, the absence of scores of paintings and sketches which were destroyed in 1947 when the artist’s wooden hut caught fire. His early works from Germany, the Kinneret yard, Afikim and from Latvia (on the eve of the war) as well as works from Afikim in the forties.
For example, the landscape from the forties exhibited on an easel, preserves traces of the “Mountain-woman” paintings which Roth painted in the Kinneret yard.
When Roth visited Latvia, he returned with about fifty oil on canva paintings. The few that survived are exhibited here.
During the second half of the forties following his meeting with the artist Shalom Seba, Roth returned to the style of painting he developed as a youth in Germany (refer to linoleum prints from 1930). From here on he abandoned impressionistic influences and strove to achieve plasticity, to sharpen his focus and work on form and symbolism in light and shade (in time and in death). During the fifties he gradually developed a painterly monumental approach, fresco-like works of large dimensions, exhibited here in the central hall.
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