About the artist
Zvi Lazar lives and works
in the artist's village
Ein Hod. He was born
in
1940 in
Haifa,
Israel
Much of his youth was
spent on the
beach of
Bat-Galim, a seaside
neighborhood of
Haifa.
His parents had a
waterfront home, on the
beach of the
Mediterranean. This is why Zvi's
biggest love was the
endless space of seas and
oceans. He was a
young man when he began sailing on ocean-going ships of
the Israeli merchant Marines. Following, he was
enlisted into the army,
first as a volunteer with the
Israeli Sea Commandoes,
and later on
naval destroyer ships. Immediately after his military service he returned to
the Merchant Marines, a
love story that continued
40 years. He started as a
deck-boy and rose through
the ranks to Ship's Master. During these years, he successfully graduated from the Officers Institute in the city of
Akko.
In the year 2000 he was forced to stop
working because he contracted cancer, which he eventually overcame, after a long and bitter struggle.
Zvi began painting in 1972, but only later, during his illness he commit himself to his paintings full-time, the creative passion never left him since, becoming an on going commitment.
Under the talented hand of Clair Yaniv an artist and teacher, he refined his skills and later joined group exhibitions in the
Cultural
Center and Olive-Press Gallery
of Ein Hod, and at the Artist's Gallery in
Dusseldorf,
Germany.
In the beginning of
2007, Zvi adopted a new approach
to his painting, which
is exhibited in this site. He had also written a book,
about his years in the Merchant Marines, with excellent reviews. |
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