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Lea Majaro-Mintz, Israeli painter and sculptor

Lea Majaro was born the Old City of Jerusalem, descended from a family that settled in the Land of Israel in 1740. Her father, Leon Majarovsky, was a physician and her mother, Hannah Rokach, was a pianist. Majaro studied art at Bezalel and law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She practiced law, taught art at various academic institutions and worked as an art critic for Davar newspaper. She married Yitzhak Mintz, with whom she has two children. In 1967, after the Six Day War, she moved back to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.

Majaro-Mintz waged a legal battle to restore the home of her grandfather, Shimon Rokach, the founder of Neve Tzedek, the first neighborhood outside the walls of Jaffa. In recognition of her work, she won the Conservation Prize for Historic Sites and Buildings and the Henry Ford European Conservation Award.

Lea Majaro-Mintz is best known for her clay sculptures of fleshy, flabby women. She has been legally blind since 1999, but continues to paint in watercolors and oils. In her book "Conversations in Clay," she explores norms of beauty and ugliness. In 2009 she was honored to light the third torch at Mount herzl's annual Independence Day Celebration.

Education

Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Teaching

Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem, "Form and Color"
Bar Ilan University
Midrasha College for Art Teacher Training

Awards And Prizes

1981 International Book Fair, Jerusalem
1983 Erest Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Jerusalem
1983 Jerusalem Prize for Painting and Sculpture

Environmental Sculptures

Yad Montefiore, Jerusalem
Jerusalem Railway Station