- Wachash, Rafael
- Wachenhauser, Arie
- Wachsstock Schonfeld, Betty
- Wachtel, Wilhelm
- Wagner, Penny
- Wagshal, Nadav
- Wahabby, Samira
- Wainberg, Pini
- Wainer, Hota J.E.
- Wainer, Karen
- Wainer, Yaffa
- Wajnman Ofek, Zvia
- Waked, Sharif
- Wakerman, Doron
- Waks, Luka
- Waksberg, Rachel
- Wakstein, David
- Walach, Ami
- Walden, Norma
- Waldman, Zygmunt
- Wall, Raya
- Wallach, Naomi
- Wallersteiner, Yehuda
- Wallerstein-Milner, Vera
- Wallish, Otte
- Walma van der Molen, Michael
- Wanetik, Malka
- Wapner, David
- Ward, Alex
- Wardi, Ariel
- Wardi, Eva
- Wardi, Rafael
- Warsager, Dov (Ber)
- Warshavsky, Neora
- Wartikovsky, Ziva
- Wasserman Sinai, Raya
- Wasserman, Akiva
- Wasserman, Naftali A.
- Wasserstrum, Sarah
- Waxman, Yossi
- Wayne, Leslie D.
- Wegner, Shirley
- Weichman, Sara
- Weil, Georges
- Weil, Shraga
- Weiler, Franz Shimon
- Weill, Etienne Bernard
- Weinberg, Amir
- Weinberg, Bronia
- Weinberg, Itzhak
- Weinberg, Reuma
- Weinberg, Tamira
- Weinberger, Israel
- Weinberger, Raymond
- Weiner, Shalom
- Weinfeld, Yocheved (Juki)
- Weingrod, Daniel
- Weinreich, Peretz
- Weinshall Liberman, Judith
- Weinstadt, Zvi
- Weinstein, Amnon
- Weinstein, Gal
- Weinstein, Joe
- Weinstein, Mira
- Weintraub, Barbara
- Weintraub, Chagit
- Weintraub, Michaella
- Weintraub, Shlomo (Sonny)
- Weisberg, Sylvia
- Weisberger, Lilian
- Weisbuch, Claude
- Weisenstein, Rudi
- Weiss, Aryeh
- Weiss, Carmela
- Weiss, Chava
- Weiss, Dalia
- Weiss, Dubi
- Weiss, Dvorah
- Weiss, Effi
- Weiss, F.M.
- Weiss, Gali
- Weiss, Hinda
- Weiss, Ilana
- Weiss, Joseph
- Weiss, Kalman
- Weiss, Nachum
- Weiss, Osnat
- Weiss, Rotem
- Weiss, Shmuel
- Weiss, Yoav
- Weiss, Ziporah
- Weiss, Zita
- Weissberg, Alexander
- Weissblum, Tikva
- Weissenberg, Heinz
- Weissenberg, Jacob Julius
- Weissenstern, Shifra
- Weisser, Ayala
- Weisser, Vivian
- Weisshoff, Eliezer
- Weissman, Nadav
- Weisz, Enrique Zvi
- Weisz, Isabelle
- Weizman, Carmit
- Weizman, Drora
- Weizman, Pola
- Weizmann Aharoni, Adi
- Weltman, Esther
- Werbin, Fania
- Werblowski, Arie
- Werner Anblum, Shoshana
- Wertheim, Naftali
- Wertman, Daniella
- Wertman, Israel
- Wertman, Orna
- Wertsman, Sara
- Wertzel, Marian
- Weston, Reggie
- Wexenfeld, Ofer
- Wexler Racine, Daniella
- Wexler, Menachem Ron
- Wexler, Yaacov
- White, Eva
- Widzer, Ariela
- Wieder Schneider, Sara
- Wiener, Kata
- Wigdor, Sybil (Zippora)
- Wikrowicky, Nachman
- Wilensky, Shoshana
- Wilf, Edith
- Wilf, Jacob
- Wilhelm, Louisa
- Wind, Baruch
- Wind, Noam
- Wind, Nomi
- Wind, Orna
- Winer, Peter
- Winkler, Benny
- Wisnia, Joseph
- Witenberg, Bernard
- Witkin, Aaron
- Witman, Adam
- Wittman, David
- Wittman, Risa
- Wiznitzer, Joseph
- Wolberg, Pavel
- Wolf Krakauer, Grete
- Wolf, Allen
- Wolf, Ella
- Wolf, Jeanne
- Wolf, Kobi
- Wolff, Ilan
- Wolfgang, Meyer Michael
- Wolfson, Yarden
- Wolkowicz, Roland
- Wolkowitch, Shlomo
- Wolkowski Dvir, Orly
- Wolkowski, Eran
- Wolman, Michel
- Wolpert Richard, Chava
- Wolpert, Ludwig Yehuda
- Wolutsky, Elisha
- Woodnitzky, Shmuel
- Wossock Zad, Frois
- Wydra Yanor, Lela
- Wyman, Shulamit
עברית
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZShraga Weil
Shraga Weil, Israeli, born in Czechoslovakia, 1918-2009
Shraga Weil was born to a traditional Jewish family in Nitra, Czechoslovakia. His father was an architect. In 1931, the family moved to Bratislava. As a teenager, Weil was active in Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. He dropped out of high school and worked in construction for two years. He then worked as an apprentice for a local sculptor in Nitra. In 1937, he began to study art in Prague, but left after the outbreak of World War II. He spent the war in Budapest forging papers for the Hungarian underground. In 1943, he was arrested. He and his wife were sent to a concentration camp and then to prison. The underground helped to free him him in 1944.
After the war, Weil designed books for the Hehalutz movement. In 1946, he spent 8 months in a pioneer training camp in Belgium. In 1947, he sailed to the Land of Israel aboard the S.S. Theodore Herzl. The ship was detained by the British and Weil was sent to Cyprus. There he worked as an instructor at a handicrafts workshop for Jewish youth. In 1948, he moved to Israel and joined Kibbutz Haogen.
In 1952-1953, he studied art in Paris, specializing in printmaking, reliefs and wall murals. In the 1950s, he was active in various kibbutz movement organizations.In 1949-1955, he worked as an illustrator for Sifriyat Hapoalim. publishing company. During this period he illustrated Thomas Mann's book "Joseph and His Brothers."
Weil's early work was similar in style to the socialist art embraced by the Kibbutz Ha'artzi movement. From the 1960s, his work began to incoporate Jewish symbols and iconography. His best known works are the entrance doors of the Knesset (1966), the entrance door of the President's House and the ceramic wall on the facade of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv.
Education
1937-1938, State School of Art, Prague
1952-1953, Fresco and printmaking, Ecole des Beaux Artes, Paris
Mosaics under Gino Severini
Awards And Prizes
1959 Dizengoff Prize