{"id":2862,"date":"2023-11-15T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T07:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hannashvily.art\/about\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:46:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hannashvily.art\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2862\" class=\"elementor elementor-2862 elementor-7\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-135199b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"135199b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ea373e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2ea373e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f09e722 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f09e722\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">BIOGRAPHY<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e943777 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e943777\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:right;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hanna Shvily (n\u00e9e Zaitschek) was born in Jerusalem in 1936 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She lives and works in Jerusalem<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in the graphic design department<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specialized at the Jerusalem Print Workshop<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engages in painting, drawing and teaching<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shvily&#8217;s works focus on the painting and drawing of local landscapes, natural as well as urban, mainly in Jerusalem and its surroundings, and sometimes in political context. The works range from abstract to figurative painting\/drawing, combining the observation of the surroundings with an introspective gaze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a versatile and curious artist, Shvily draws inspiration from diverse sources, as different one from the other as the drawings of Albrecht D\u00fcrer, the cave paintings of Altamira, and American abstract expressionism. This diversity has led to constant changes in Shvily\u2019s body of work as she kept on searching for the exact line or patch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shvily uses various techniques: drawing with pencil, graphite pencil, charcoal, ink; painting in oil, watercolor, acrylic, industrial paint, pastel; collage; print, engraving, and more.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shvily began her practice of art when she was in elementary school in the late 1940s, copying Albrecht D\u00fcrer&#8217;s drawings from reproductions she found at home. Impressed by her work, her father, Dr. David Zaitschek, who was a scientist at the Hebrew University and later the head of the Department of Botany, invited her to illustrate his scientific articles with embellished drawings of local plants. The highly accurate, refined drawings gained attention in the Israeli scientific community. Various institutions, such as the Dagon Israel Silos in Haifa, commissioned the young artist to work for them.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During her studies at the Bezalel Academy in the 1950s, Shvily expanded her scope of work from drawing in pencil to drawing in charcoal and graphite, and began to paint in larger formats also in oil and watercolor. Like other painters of the Israeli melting pot generation, Shvily\u2019s subjects focused on local landscape, in particular the Jerusalem hills and woods. Her work was influenced by prominent Israeli painters of the period, among them Anna Ticho and Leopold Krakauer.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her exposure to abstract painting both locally (when she became familiar with the works of Yehezkel Streichman and Ori Reisman) and internationally (when she first visited Europe and the USA during the 1960s and the 1970s), led Shvily to gradually move from figurative to abstract painting. She painted mainly in shades of black and white, as well as brown, in formats that kept growing bigger. Rough brushstrokes replaced the precise lines to create a different type of landscape, more disheveled and stormy. With a swing, Shvily ravaged the innocent Zionist landscapes, drew borders to divide them, and set forests on fire. At the same time, she continued to experiment with new techniques such as abstract collage and print, using a broader color palette. In the 1980s and 1990s, the main influence on her work was prehistoric cave paintings alongside abstract American art.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aging and caring for her ailing husband in the early years of this century brought gloom to Shvily&#8217;s life and cast a shadow on her art. In a technique unique to her, she covered, erased and engraved in a bed of ash-like graphic powder on paper. During this period, the influence of German artists such as Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter is evident in the works.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current chapter in Shvily&#8217;s work is, perhaps unexpectedly, colorful and optimistic &#8211; abstract painting, usually in colored chalk, on chrome paper, in small formats.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solo exhibitions:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1978 &#8211; Gallery at the Jerusalem Theater<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1979 \u2013 Artists\u2019 House, Jerusalem<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1981 &#8211; Ben-Uri Gallery, London<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1983 &#8211; Ella Gallery, Jerusalem<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group exhibitions:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1985 &#8211; Jerusalem Artists at the Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue)<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1990 \u2013 &#8220;Trees&#8221;, Artists&#8217; House, Jerusalem<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1994 \u2013 European Biennale, Istanbul<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1995 &#8211; &#8220;Art on an Assembly Line&#8221;, The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court (yard) Museum, Jerusalem (catalogue)<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1996 &#8211; &#8220;Art on an Assembly Line&#8221;, Yad Labanim Museum, Petah Tikva<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2001 &#8211; &#8220;Drawing in Israel Today\u201d \u2013 The First Israel Drawing Biennial, Artists\u2019 House, Jerusalem<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2004 &#8211; &#8220;Traces II\u201d \u2013 The Second Israel Drawing Biennial, Artists\u2019 House, Jerusalem<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2007 \u2013 Traces III\u201d &#8211; The Third Israel Drawing Biennale&#8221;, Artists\u2019 House, Jerusalem<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hanna Shvily is the daughter of Dr. David Zaitschek and Aliza n\u00e9e Blonsky, the sister of Edna Mor, the widow of Michael Shvily, and the mother of Efrat and Benni.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9beb3b4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9beb3b4\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9d7bd2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a9d7bd2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image 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