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Orloff Chana
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1888-1968
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Konstantinowka, Ukraine
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Ecole de Paris Israeli
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Chana Orloff, Sculptor. b. 1888, Konstantinowka, Ukraine. Immigrated 1906. 1910 went to Paris. Studies: 1911 Russian Academy, Montparnasse; 1929 National Art Decoratif, Paris. Prize: 1925 Knight of Legion of Honour, Paris. 1923 Was accepted at the "Salon d'Automne". Her sculptures counted among the first artists of the Paris School, with Modilgliani, Soutine, Lifshitz, Chagall and Pascin. Executed bronze busts of Israeli personalities, including Ben- Gurion, Reuven Rubin, Hanna Rovina. Environmental Sculptures: 1949 Ein Gev, Mother and Child; 1953-54 Ramat Gan, Dov Gruner; 1965 Jerusalem, Binyanei Ha'uma, Peace; others in Israel and France. Died 1968. (The Israel museum in Jerusalem, web site)
In 1904, the Orloff family immigrates to Israel, driven out by the pogroms. Six years later, Chana leaves for Paris. Its intention is to obtain a diploma of sewing. She works at Paquin which notices her and encourages her to develop her artistic gifts.
After a traditional formation at the National School of Decorative Arts, Chana studies sculpture at the Russian Academy in Montparnasse. It is in this point in time that her relations with Soutine, Modigliani, Pascin, Zadkine started.
From 1913, Chana participates in the Salon d'Automne, then with the Salon de Tuileries and the Independent.
Chana is then the appointed portraitist of the Parisian elite; genre in which she excels in subtlety and in mischievousness, without never falling into the caricature. "One day she did the portrait of Mac Orlan and, since then, Mac Orlan is only the reflection of real Mac Orlan created by the artist "! Chana Orloff by E. Des Couri?res.
In 1917, Chana marries the poet Ary Justman who dies in 1919 from the Spanish influenza, leaving her with a one year old son Elie or Didi.
