Art and designבתיה גרוסברד

Batia Grossbard

Batia Grossbard was a Polish-born Israeli painter whose work was influenced by American abstract expressionism.

1910 to 1995Abstract paintingMountain landscape paintingsThe book Lines and Trees

Born: 14 April 1910, Ostrów Mazowiecka
Died: 11 August 1995, Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Occupation: artist
Education: Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

Batia Grossbard was born in 1910 in Ostrów Mazowiecka

Batia Grossbard, born Friedkes, was born in 1910 in Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland. She studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and completed her studies there.

In 1938 she immigrated to the Land of Israel. She joined the British Army and served in Egypt from 1942 to 1945. After her release she settled in Haifa and married the painter Yehoshua Grossbard.

In 1954 she studied at the studio of André Lhote in Paris. On her return she settled in the Ein Hod artists' village and joined the Artists and Sculptors Association in Israel. She also taught art at elementary schools in Haifa.

She worked in watercolor, oil and lithography. A book of her work, Lines and Trees, came out in 1966. Her work into the 1970s focused on mountain landscapes, and she later moved to an abstract style.

She received the Herman Struck Prize of the Haifa Municipality. She died in 1995.