Joseph Chaaltiel (1931-2016) - Nude woman lying and pigeons. White chalk on red paper signed and dated, 50X70 cm.

Joseph Chaaltiel (1931-2016) - Nude woman lying and pigeons. White chalk on red paper signed and dated, 50X70 cm.
Shaltiel was born in the city of Izmir and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1947 at the age of 15 and settled in Kibbutz Yagur where he studied painting with the cities of Glass. After his military service, he joined Kibbutz Gan Shmuel and part of a studio with the artist Yochanan Simon. He received his training as an artist at the Oranim Seminary (recommended by Yochanan Simon) and studied with Marcel Janko until 1956, in the same year he responded to Marcel Janko's call and joined the Ein Hod artists' village established on the slopes of Mount Carmel. A year later, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, and in 1963 graduated from the Olivier de Sère stained-glass academy in Paris. The first stained glass work he created was placed at the Dan Carmel Hotel in Haifa and since then he has created close to 70 stained glass windows in Israel and around the world. Stained glass windows he created are located at the President's House in Jerusalem, the Lovers of Zion Synagogue in Jerusalem, the Heichal Yehuda Synagogue in Tel Aviv and the synagogue in Moshav Nir Etzion.

Over the years, Shaltiel has won several awards, including the UNESCO Art Prize (1985), the Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Ministry of Education (1982) and the Struck Prize for Art from the Haifa Municipality (2011).

He has been married since 1956 to the artist Ora Lahav-Shaltiel, the coordinator of the bad arts division in Haifa, and a father of three. Died of cancer on January 8, 2016.

This item is from the estate of a restaurant which operated in the artists' village of Ein Hod on the slopes of Mount Carmel.

The restaurant operated in the 1970s and was the focus of every artist's pilgrimage

In the estate collection you can find items by Marcel Janko, Shmuel Schlesinger, Moshe Mukdai, Ovadia alkara Ben- Zion Magal, Ora Lahav Chaaltiel, Prof. Joseph Chaaltiel, Genia Berger, Avri Ohana, Miriam Ruth Sarnoff, Shmuel & Ealle Raayoni, Avinoam Kosovsky, Yaakov Gotterman.

Like the artists of the period, famous cultural figures visited Ein Hod, including Gila Almagor, Dan Kanner, Dan Ben-Amotz, Moni Moshonov, Shlomo Braba.

The artists' village of Ein Hod is located next to the old road from Tel Aviv to Haifa, on a hill overlooking the shores of Atlit and the Crusader fortress. The village was founded in 1953, about five years after the establishment of the state of Israel, following an idea conceived by a group of revolutionary artists led by Marcel Janko: to establish the first artist village in Israel that would provide a supportive, creative and fertile environment for its residents.

The first decades were difficult for the founders, but perseverance, ideals and vision led to the establishment of Ein Hod as the only artist village in Israel - and among the few in the world - whose population is based on artists in all fields of art: from plastic art to music, literature and theater.