Shaul Shats (; born 1944) (variant names Shaul Shatz, Saul Shatz) is an Israeli

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, printmaker and

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, born in 1944 in Kibbutz Sarid,

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. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,

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(1965–66), the Rietveld Academy,

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(1967), and the Freie Akademie,

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(1967). Shats taught at the Bezalel Academy from 1978–82. He won the

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Prize for Illustration (1990), the Jerusalem Prize (1992), the Ben Yitzhak Prize for Illustration of Israeli Children's Books (1992), and the Ish-Shalom Prize. Shats continues to live and work in Jerusalem.

Selected exhibitions

* 2007: ''Ella Gallery'', Jerusalem * 2005: ''Jerusalem Artists’ House'', Jerusalem * 2004: ''Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel'', University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haif
(online catalogue)
* 2003: ''Bineth Gallery'', Tel-Aviv * 1984: ''Cardo Gallery'', Jerusalem * 1971: ''Little Gallery'', Jerusalem * 1969: ''Engel Gallery'', Jerusalem

Selected collections

* ''Israel Museum'', Jerusalem * ''Tel Aviv Museum of Art'' * ''Stedelijk Museum'', Amsterdam

References

* Ayal, Avishay, and Yoram Bar-Gal. ''Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel'' xhibition catalogue Haifa: University of Haifa Art Gallery, 2004. * ''Shaul Shats: Paintings'' xhibition catalogue Jerusalem: Cardo Gallery, 1984.

External links

Israeli Art Centre
(Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Shaul Shats
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shats, Shaul Living people 1944 births Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni Israeli painters