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Shoshanna Heimann, sculptor, born 1923, Weimar Republic, Germany. Painter, sculptor, lithographer, drawing, book illustrator, and poet; one of the founders of the Artists' Colony in Ein Hod, moved to Artists' Colony in Ein Hod in 1980. Died 2009.

Education

1936-38,1939-41, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
1939 Advanced studies, with Israeli Sculptor, Rudi Lehman
1941-46 Advanced studies with Israeli Sculptor Rudi Lehman
1946-48 Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy

Teaching

1972-75 Sculpture at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1974-77 Sculpture at the Avni Institute, Tel Aviv
1974-77 Sculpture at the Ein Hod School of Art
1976-79 Haifa University.Creative Art Department, chairman of creative art department

Awards And Prizes

1948 Young Artist Prize in Sculpture, Association of Artists and Sculptors in Israel
1951 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
1956 Scholarship from the French Government for Advanced Studies at the Academy de Beaux Artes, Paris, France
1963 Purchase award, The Center for Coultur and Education, HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael
1967 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
1967 UNESCO and Prince Rainier Prize at Biennale for Plastic Arts, Monaco
1969 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
1976 Research Grant at Art Institutions, D.A.A.D, Germany
1976 Research Grant, The British Council
1976 Grant from the Israel Council for Art and Education for travel thru Europe
1992 Artist-in-residence, Dusseldorf, Germany
1995 Artist-in-residence, Dusseldorf, Germany