Angelika Schatz - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jan 31, 1897 Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Died on 16 May 1975 (aged 78)

Israeli painter and art critic

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About Angelika Schatz

  • Angelika Schatz (1897 – May 1975) was an Israeli artist. The daughter of Boris Schatz, a well-known Israeli artist, and Zhenia Zhermovsky, his first wife, she was born in Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • When she was six, her mother left her father to go to Paris with Andrej Nikolow, one of her father's students, and took her daughter with her.
  • Schatz went on to study art at an academy in Germany.In 1919, Schatz married Robert Meerson.
  • The couple lived in Hamburg, later moving to Paris.
  • In 1923, they moved to Berlin; they had their only child, a son, there.
  • In 1925, the couple moved to Prague, where they stayed for ten years.
  • She spent some time in Paris in 1928.
  • In 1932, she won a gold medal at the Grand Prix, an art show in Paris.
  • Schatz also had exhibitions in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.
  • The family later moved to Sofia, where Schatz was part of a group of female artists and also published articles as an art critic.
  • Around 1940, Schatz and her husband were divorced.
  • During World War II, both Schatz and her son were interned for a time in labor camps.
  • In January 1948, she went to Israel with her son.
  • Schatz married Dan Schneider in 1951; the couple and her son lived in Tel Aviv.
  • She joined the Association of Painters and Sculptors there and continued to paint but was not otherwise well-connected with the local art scene.She died in Tel Aviv at the age of 78 and was buried in Kiryat Shaul Cemetery.

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