Орлова, Хана 

Sculptor

Born Tsare Konstantinovka, 12 July 1888

Died  Tel-Aviv, 18 December 1968

Chana Orloff  immigrated to Palestine in 1905 and settled in Jaffa, where she found a job as a cutter and seamstress. After five years in the country, she was offered a teaching position in cutting and dressmaking at Gymnasia Herzliya. She went to Paris to study fashion but chose art instead, enrolled in sculpture classes at the Académie Russe in Montparnasse. After a stay in Switzerland because of the war, she settled in 1950 again in Israel.

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1927

1969

1987