Ruth Schloss

Ruth Schloss was born in 1922 in Nuremberg

Ruth Schloss was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1922 to Ludwig and Dian Schloss. She was the second of three daughters in an assimilated Jewish family. After the Nazis came to power, the family moved to the Land of Israel in 1937 and settled in Kfar Shmaryahu.

From 1938 to 1942 she studied graphic design at Bezalel. She then joined a training group at Kibbutz Merhavia, and its members later settled at Lehavot HaBashan in the Upper Galilee.

From 1945 to 1949 she drew for the children's magazine Mishmar Leyeladim, and she designed the logo of Al HaMishmar and the emblem of Mapam. Her first solo exhibition opened in 1949, and she then studied in Paris until 1951. In 1951 she married Benjamin Cohen, later a history professor at Tel Aviv University.

In 1953 the couple left the kibbutz after the Mordechai Oren affair and moved to Kfar Shmaryahu. She worked in a studio in Jaffa from 1962 to 1983 and painted children, mothers and workers. Her series dealt with the demolition of Arab houses, war and Anne Frank.

She died in 2013 at her home and was buried in Kfar Shmaryahu. She was survived by two daughters.