First One-Man Show in New York
Written By: Caroll Carstairs
Bezalel Schatz was born in art, lived with art, and emerges as a product of the classical tradition of art, combined with the great influence of impressionism and expressionism.
His father, the late Professor Boris Schatz, a world-famous sculptor, had relinquished a brilliant career as court sculptor to the King of Bulgaria, to bring about the renaissance of art in Palestine and in 1905 founded the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. His mother is an art critic, well known in Europe and Palestine.
Born twenty-eight years ago in Jerusalem, Bezalel Schatz (named after the first sculptor in the Bible), painted from his earliest childhood, participated in an exhibition at the age of ten, and was graduated from the Bezalel School at fourteen, at a time when he was already giving instruction to a class of students.
In 1930 he came to the United States with his father. For two years father and son exhibited their work in every large city from coast to coast.
Later followed four years of study in Paris. During this period, Schatz developed from the academic training of his youth into the modern phases of art. In Paris, his exhibition brought praise from the pen of such critics as Claude Roger Marx and G. J. Gros. This was followed by an exhibition in London.
The present exhibition, his first one-man show in New York, is comprised, for the most part of canvasses painted in Santa Fe and Gloucester.
First One-Man Show in New York
Written By: Caroll Carstairs
Bezalel Schatz was born in art, lived with art, and emerges as a product of the classical tradition of art, combined with the great influence of impressionism and expressionism.
His father, the late Professor Boris Schatz, a world-famous sculptor, had relinquished a brilliant career as court sculptor to the King of Bulgaria, to bring about the renaissance of art in Palestine and in 1905 founded the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. His mother is an art critic, well known in Europe and Palestine.
Born twenty-eight years ago in Jerusalem, Bezalel Schatz (named after the first sculptor in the Bible), painted from his earliest childhood, participated in an exhibition at the age of ten, and was graduated from the Bezalel School at fourteen, at a time when he was already giving instruction to a class of students.
In 1930 he came to the United States with his father. For two years father and son exhibited their work in every large city from coast to coast.
Later followed four years of study in Paris. During this period, Schatz developed from the academic training of his youth into the modern phases of art. In Paris, his exhibition brought praise from the pen of such critics as Claude Roger Marx and G. J. Gros. This was followed by an exhibition in London.
The present exhibition, his first one-man show in New York, is comprised, for the most part of canvasses painted in Santa Fe and Gloucester.