Artist's Biography:

Hannah Levi (born under the name Anna Weiler), painter, born 1914, Berlin.
Immigrated to Eretz Israel (then Mandatory Palestine) in 1934.
Died in 2006.

In 1935 she began studying painting with Jacob Steinhardt in Jerusalem.
After her lessons she would drive to Petach Tikva, where she worked at fruit picking until 1938.
From 1940-1941 she lived in the artists’ colony in Motza, in the Judean Hills.
In 1954 she married the painter and musician Yitzhak Levy.
In 1953 she settled in Safed, and in the 1970s she exhibited under the auspices of the “Aclim (Climate)” Group.

Most of Levi’s work was in portrait and landscape painting. Her early works were primarily portraits, influenced by German Expressionists such as Kokoschka.
In the 1940s she began to experiment also with landscape painting, which became the main genre of her painting.
Her painting underwent a gradual shift towards abstraction, which reached its peak in the 1970s.

Education
Painting with Jacob Steinhardt, Jerusalem.
From 1954 lived in Safed, where there is a permanent exhibition of her works

Awards and Prizes
1978 Scholarship, The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Solo Exhibitions

Museum of Modern Art, Haifa (1965)
Artist’s House, Jerusalem
Private Galleries in Jerusalem.
Retrospective exhibition - “Yad LeBanim” Museum, Petah Tikva

Group Exhibitions

2016 History of Her-Story, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
2015 ''New Bezalel'' German influence on Israeli art, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa
2014 Lyrical? - Not Necessarily: Israeli Abstract Art in the Dubi Shiloah Collection, Open University Gallery, Dorothy De Rothschild Open University Campus, Ra’anana
2013 School of Paris in the Artists' Quarter in Safed in the 1950s-1960s, Hecht Museum, University Haifa
2012 Tectonic Faults, Bet Mani House, Yehuda Halevi St., Tel Aviv & Petach Tikvah Museum of Art, Petach Tikva
2011 Jewish Star- From yellow star to Magen David, (-3) Rothschild 65 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 1972, Three Generations, Kupferman Collection Gallery, Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot
2006 12 Artists - A Second Glance, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1996 ''We Prefer Jerusalem Above Our Chief Joy'', Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
1995 Portrait of a Woman - The Museum's Collection, Haifa Museum of Modern Art
1993 Small Format, Hamishkan Le'omanut, Beth Meirov, Holon
         Small Format, The Bar David Museum for Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Bar'am
1989 Portrait, Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1981 The Woman Image in Israeli Art, Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1979 Aclim 79, Fredric R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv
1977 Aclim, Goldman Fine Arts Gallery, Washington D.C.
         Aclim, Hirshberg Gallery, Boston
1976 Aclim, Haifa University Art Gallery
1975 Aclim Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Eilat
1974 Aclim (Climate), Haifa Museum for Modern Art
         Aclim, Heichal HaTarbut Fredric R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv
         Aclim, Artists' House, Jerusalem
1969 A Leap of Faith, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures from Israel, State University of NY, Albany, New York
         Israel on Paper, San Francisco Museum of Art
1967 Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv
1966 General Exhibition - Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
1962 Group Exhibition, Artists' House, Jerusalem
1959 General Exhibition, On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the City of Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1958 Israel 1948-1958: Watercolors, Drawings, Graphics, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
         The Spring Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
1957 Spring Exhibition of the Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
1956 Annual Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1955 Artists of Jerusalem, Artist Pavillion, Tel-Aviv
1951 Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists in honor of the 23rd Zionist Congress, Artists' House, Jerusalem
1949 Artistes de Jerusalem, Artists' House, Jerusalem

"There was a gifted painter in Safed, loved and admired by many, named Hannah Levi. A Dedicated and very capable painter, lived modestly, raising cats and painted in abundance until near death.
After she passed away in 2006, and since no institution or person were interested in her estate, despite all its qualities, two of her relatives (Hannah Levy had no children) bought an old bus, located it in their yard is Moshav Sdei Hemed (near Kfar Saba) and turned it into the warehouse legacy of Hannah Levy. Occasionally, they granted her paintings as gifts for family relatives and friends, from time to tome a work of hers might have been sold, I'm not sure, but the bottom line is  that Hannah Levi’s creation – a painter Tel Aviv Museum of Art included in a memorial exhibition ("second look") conducted for a dozen forgotten artists in 2006-2007, and for whom the Peripheral Museums Association conducted a mobile comprehensive retrospective exhibition of her works in 1992, including a fine catalog - the creation of a gifted painter is rotting in the bus in a Sdei Hemed yard, sentenced to the mercy of the sun and the cold. that's the way it is".

Source:
Gideon Ofrat (born in Tel Aviv, 1945, a prominent Israeli art critic, author and curator, an expert in the history of art, aesthetic theory and general philosophy, and especially in the history of Israeli art)

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