Liliane Klapisch

Liliane Klapisch was born in 1933 in Cachan

Liliane Klapisch was born in 1933 in Cachan, near Paris, to Orthodox Jewish parents from Poland. During World War II her family hid in Paris and then in different places across France, and all of them survived. After the war she was sent to Switzerland to recover, and there she first became interested in painting.

She began with piano lessons but soon turned to private painting lessons. From 1948 to 1949 she studied at the Académie Ranson in Paris and also drew at the Grande Chaumière academy. She first painted in the lyrical abstract style, then drew Hellenistic reliefs at the Louvre, discovered Nicolas Poussin and moved to figurative painting, a change that drew criticism.

In 1957 she married the philosopher Stéphane Mosès, and they had 3 children. From 1958 to 1959 she lived in Casablanca, Morocco, during her husband's military service. In 1969 she immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem.

From the 1970s her figurative and expressive works offered an alternative to the Israeli art of the time. She also made prints in lithography, etching and screen printing. Her works are held by the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Haifa Museum of Art, and she lives and works in Jerusalem and Paris.