Zvi Shor (Zvi Shorr)

1898, Sataniv, Podolia, Ukraine - 1979, Petah Tikva, Israel

Flower Vase and Still Life on a Table, 1960s

Original Hand-Signed Oil on Canvas

Artist Name: Zvi Shor

Title: Flower vase and still life on a table, 1960s

Signature Description: Hand-signed in Hebrew lower right 

Technique: Oil on canvas

Size: 55 x 38 cm / 21.65 x 14.96" inch

Frame: Unframed

Condition: Very Good condition


Artist's Biography:

Zvi Shor (Shorr), painter, born 1898, Sataniv, Podolia, Ukraine.
Immigrated to Eretz Israel (then Mandatroy Palestine) in 1921, settled in Haifa. Lived later near Petah Tikvah.
Between 1936-38 he lived and worked in Paris, where he met the masters of the "Jewish Ecole de Paris" including Chaim Soutime, and Yankel Adler. Painted mainly urban landscapes.
Founded the first classes at the Petach Tikvah Museum of Art in painting, sculpture and ceramics.
Shor is considered the patron artist of Petah Tikvah: In 1996 The Yad Lebanim Museum of Petach Tikvah, where he was one of the initiators, and where he directed the painting studio, named a wing of its museum the Zvi Shor Department of Art.
Zvi Shor died in 1979. 

Education
1921 -23 Painting with Prof. Hermann Struck
Sculpture with sculptor, Eliezer Strich
1936-38 Advanced studies at the Grand Chaumiere, Paris, France.

Teaching
1921 The Hebrew Reali High School, Haifa, arts & crafts
1939-48 Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha, painting
1939 Shine Teachers' Seminary, Petach Tikva

Awards And Prizes
1939 Dizengoff Prize, for painting "Hot Day, Tel Aviv"
1948 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture
1948 Dizengoff Prize
1949 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture
1970 First International Art Exhibition, Nepal Association of Fine Arts,(NAFA), Letter of Recommendation1978 Notable of Petach Tikva

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

1931 Hotel Herzlia, under patronage of Meir Dizengoff (Mayor of Tel Aviv).
1955 Artists' House, Jerusalem
1969 Arizona, U.S.A.
1970-77 Yad Lebanim, Petah Tikvah
               Bet Emanuel, Ramat Gan
               Mishkan Leomanut, Holon
               Beersheba Museum
               Bat Yam Museum
               Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
               Milo Club
His works were shown in nearly all the museums in Israel.
Adept at producing a wide range of colors using only the basic ones, Shor also knew the secret of absorbing the nuances of the Israeli light, resulting is very Cezanne-like. 

Zvi Shor (1898-1979) was an Israeli painter and painting teacher who created during the Yishuv period (denote the body of Jewish residents in the Land of Israel until 1948) prior to the establishment of the State of Israel and afterwards.

Biography

Zvi Shor was born in Ukraine in 1898.
At a young age he was orphaned by his parents and was educated by his uncle. He studied at "Heder" (a school for Jewish children in which Hebrew and religious knowledge are taught, and supported himself by various jobs, among them errands for a Jewish shopkeeper, from whom he acquired his skill in drawing. 
After the Petliura riots (1919-1920) he fled to Bessarabia in Romania, where he and his friends founded the branch of the "Halutz" movement and served as the movement's secretary.

Shor immigrated to Israel (then Mandatory Palestine) in 1921 on the third ascent - the "pioneer" from Eastern Europe and settled in Haifa. Among his friends were the artists Prof. Hermann Struck, the sculptor Eliezer Streich, Menachem Shemi and more. For his livelihood, he opened a bookbinding workshop in partnership with the painter Joseph Pressmane.

While living in Haifa he was influenced by the bright light in Israel and the realism of the end of the century in France. His paintings from that period have a weave of light colored surfaces and the use of shades of gray.

In 1926 he moved to Tel Aviv, which at that time was the artistic center of the Land of Israel. He drew figures of the residents of Tel Aviv: simple people, children who shine shoes and lace sellers, the portrait of the mayor Meir Dizengoff and the people of his social circle: Nathan Alterman, Shimshon Meltzer, Israel Zmora and more.

In the same year, the "Massad" group was organized, which saw itself as representing the younger generation of artists, among its members were: Aharon Avni, Avigdor Stematsky, Arie Aroch, Joseph Kossonogi, David Hendler, Mordechai Levanon, Israel Paldi and Zvi Shor.

In 1936 he went to Paris and was absorbed into the "Jewish School of Paris" group, which included: Alfred Aberdam, Chaïm Soutine, Yitzhak Frenkel, Michel Kikoïne, Mané-Katz, Max Band, Sigmund Menkes, Marc Chagall and others who came from Eastern Europe and transformed Paris in the first half of the twentieth century to the center of avant-garde art, and who created in the style of expressionism which emphasized the impression that the work might have on the viewer by using intense colors.

Shor was influenced by the French realism of the 19th century, mainly by the painter Jean-Baptiste Camus Corot, as well as by post-impressionism and artists such as Paul Cezanne.
He used to paint landscape with lush vegetation in bright green and blue colors.

Shor was successful in Paris and even exhibited his pictures at the "La Nouvelle" gallery in Montparnasse along with Pablo Picasso, Moïse Kisling, Raoul Dufy, Marie Laurencin and André Lhote. He presented there "Woman in Contemplation" and "A Woman Reading".

In 1938 he participated in a protest exhibition against the attitude of the Nazis in Germany towards the Jewish artists and was forced to return from France due to the rise of Nazism.

Shor moved to live in Kibbutz Givat HaShlosha, where he married his girlfriend, the teacher and educator Rivka, and had his children, after which he moved to live in the Neve Oz neighborhood in Petah Tikva.

In 1950, together with the director of Yad Labanim Baruch Oren, he established an art museum next to the institution to commemorate the fallen soldiers. As part of the museum, a studio for painting, sculpture and ceramics was established, which he managed and taught. Shor often painted the scenery of his city Petah Tikva and in 1978 he was awarded the title of city worthy resident.

In the years 1960-1979, a change in his artistic path was evident due to health problems. He retired from teaching and concentrated only on painting. His color scale changed, the bright green and yellow colors disappeared and the purple and blue colors became dominant, the brushstrokes are long and spontaneous and the shapes are more general, with the light radiating from the objects out and not being projected onto them.
Shor examined his self-portrait throughout his life and documented the processes of his aging and illness without trying to beautify them until the last year of his life.

He died in 1979 and was buried in the "Segula" cemetery in Petah Tikva. "The Painter Shor" street in the Neve Oz neighborhood of the city is named after him.

The following are words that were written in his memory with the display of his works in 1980 at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem: "A memorial display for an artist whose landscapes of the Land of Israel he painted since the 1920s are considered among the valuable landscape paintings of Israeli art."

As part of the initiative to commemorate artists and stage people of the Tel Aviv Municipality, a memorial plaque was placed on the house of Zvi Shor at Gezer Street 4 in Tel Aviv.

Exhibitions

  • 1928 - 1926 - at the "Tower of David" Citadel at the exhibitions of the Hebrew Artists Association.
  • 1931 - The opening of his first solo exhibition at the "Herzliya" hotel on Allenby St. in Tel Aviv by Mayor Meir Dizengoff.
  • 1935 - second solo exhibition at the "Mishchit" gallery in Tel Aviv.
  • 1938 - Group exhibition at the "Le Nieuw" gallery in Montparnasse.
  • 1938 - Tel Aviv Museum, Dizengoff House .
  • 1940 - Tel Aviv Museum - joint exhibition with the painters: Lebanon, Menachem Shemi, and Ether.
  • 1942 - Tel Aviv Museum - Views of Paris and the country.
  • 1955 - The Artisan House in Jerusalem.
  • 1955 - in the Tel Aviv Museum.
  • 1956 - "Yad Labanim" museum in Petah Tikva.
  • 1965 - A retrospective exhibition at the "Yad Labanim" museum in Petah Tikva.
  • 1966 - The Negev Museum, Beer Sheva.
  • 1968 - Municipal Museum "Beit Emanuel", Ramat Gan.
  • 1968 - "Milo" club in Tel Aviv - on the artist's 70th birthday.
  • 1968 - Beit Dizengoff - Tel Aviv artists.
  • 1969 - "Yad Labanim" museum in Petah Tikva.
  • 1969 - "Mishkan for Art", Holon.
  • 1969 - Artists Pavilion, Tel Aviv - Figurative painting.
  • 1969 - "Yares Gallery" - Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
  • 1974 - Club "Milo", Tel Aviv on the 75th anniversary of the artist.
  • 1970 - International exhibitions in Nepal and New York.
  • 1971 - The Israel Museum - "The Land of Israel Expressionism in the 1930s and its connections with the School of Paris".
  • 1974 - Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv.
  • 1977 - "Yad Labanim" Museum, Tel Aviv, - "Yoval Lezvi Shur" in the capacity of the President of the State - Prof. Ephraim Katzir .
  • 1978 - Gibeon Gallery, Tel Aviv - "Exhibition of the artists of the Land of Israel on the occasion of the 30 years of the country".
  • 1979 - Ugarit Gallery, Tel Aviv.
  • 1980 - Israel Museum - Memorial exhibition.
  • 1980 - "Yad Labanim" museum, Petah Tikva - memorial exhibition.
  • 1982 - Artists Pavilion - Tel Aviv.
  • 1989 - Beer Sheva Museum of "Art of the Land of Israel" - Fifty years of painting".
  • 1989 - "Yad Labanim" museum, Petah Tikva - memorial exhibition on the tenth anniversary of his death.
  • 1990 - "The Municipal Gallery", Kfar Saba.
  • 1993 - "Yad Labanim" museum, Petah Tikva - exhibition of Shor’s drawings from the museum's collection.

His works are in collections of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Ein Harod Art Museum, Petah Tikva Museum of Art and in many galleries in Israel and around the world, and in private collections.

Zvi Shor Collection / Petch Tikva Museum of Art

Some 60 works by painter Zvi Shorr (1898-1979) documenting the development of Petach Tikva’s local identity and life, landscapes and people
Zvi Shor, the renowned Petach Tikva painter, was among the initiators of the Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Shor conceived of the idea of founding a museum of art next to the institution dedicated to perpetuation of the city’s fallen soldiers, Yad Labanim.
He worked toward its realization in collaboration with Baruch Oren, the Museum’s first director.
In addition, together with artist Alexander Bogen, Shor founded the first painting, sculpture, and ceramics classes at the Museum whose teaching staff included Avigdor Stematsky who used to walk from Ramat Gan to Petach Tikva. Shor headed the painting studio. He was the living spirit behind the exhibitions in the nascent museum, and his many contacts helped in acquiring artworks for the Museum’s collection.
Shor and his family contributed the first paintings to the collection and encouraged bereaved families to donate artworks in memory of their loved ones. Shor was also the first artist to exhibit in the Museum, in 1954. Following the donation of his painting Hovevey Zion Street (Petach Tikva’s first street) to the collection, the Museum purchased one painting every year from him.
Petach Tikva, the “mother of settlements,” with its landscapes and sights, was at the focal point of his oeuvre in those years. Thanks to him we may observe the city with its green expanses and human scale, before the towering multi-story buildings were erected; we can observe Hovevey Zion Street, The Old Winery, the artist’s neighborhood Neve Oz, and views of the “Yad Labanim” building and the surrounding park.
Shor used to carry two canvasses with him, an easel, and a portable box of paints he made for himself, and paint the landscapes of the Sharon, Petach Tikva, and Tel Aviv. He loved the play of colors and dancing light on the Eucalyptus leaves.
To many of his paintings he gave titles such as On the Outskirts of Petach Tikva, On the Outskirts of Tel Aviv, etc. His student, Ilan Nachshon, an artist and journalist, wrote about Shor: “Anyone who knew him will remember him walking in the streets and alleys, a broad-brimmed hat on his head, and an easel, a folding chair, and a box of paints in his hands. He would find his subjects in hidden corners in Petach Tikva, Tel Aviv, and the Sharon area, where he portrayed old houses, surrounded by thick-trunked trees and intimate vistas.”
The Petach Tikva Museum of Art Collection now includes some 60 works by Zvi Shor, the most significant representation of this Eretz-Israeli artist who was influenced by the School of Paris.

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