{"id":40,"date":"2016-09-09T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artist.upwork\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2017-01-16T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:34:44","slug":"leo-roth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/leo-roth\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Jacob and the Angel; Oil on Canvas, 121&#215;101 cm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ffffff;\">Leo Roth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Leo Roth was born in 1914 in Tismenitza, Galicia, to a family of wealthy Zionist merchants. In 1930 he immigrated with his family to Germany. Due to the rise of anti-Semitism he was forced to quit his studies, and at the age of 16 he began working as an apprentice of a display-window designer. Simultaneously, he studied painting with Joseph Doppelfeld. In 1933 he immigrated to Palestine and joined the Hashomer Hatzair Movement. At first, he settled in Tel Aviv and later joined kibbutz Afikim, where he lived\u00a0for the rest of his life. During his first years in the kibbutz he worked as\u00a0a shepherd, though later he also worked as a painter and even received his own atelier. He became a member of the Kibbutz Artists Association, and In 1953 he established a painting school in the kibbutz. In 1959 he received the Emek Hayarden Painting Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: right; line-height: 150%; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span dir=\"LTR\" style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">His works portray the life transition of the first settlers \u2013 from life at the\u00a0Jewish &#8220;shtetles&#8221; to becoming pioneers in the kibbutzim. Some of his works bear influences of Mark Chagall, the German Expressionist movement and even Cubism.\u00a0Roth exhibited his works in Israel and worldwide. At the age of 88, in 2002, he passed away, Menashe Kadishman composed\u00a0the inscription on his grave, it says: \u201cHe Hid in the Kibbutz and Painted\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob and the Angel; Oil on Canvas, 121&#215;101 cm Leo Roth Leo Roth was born in 1914 in Tismenitza, Galicia, to a family of wealthy Zionist merchants. In 1930 he immigrated with his family to Germany. Due to the rise of anti-Semitism he was forced to quit his studies, and at the age of 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"view.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}