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Friday, September 28, 1984
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NEWS
The kibbutz
is his inspiration
BY HELENA FLUSFEDER
Robed figures from the Arabian
Nights, a pastel-and-ink im-
pressions of the city of Jerusalem
and buildings with roofs like Tur-
kish coffee-pot lids characterize
the artistic wit of Shmuel Katz,
one of Israel's best-known artists.
The illustrator and cartoonist
for Israel's Hebrew daily paper,Al
Hamishmar, Katz, 57, can be
found in his large studio in Kib-
butz Ga'aton, near the ruined for-
tress of Yehiam in north-western
Galilee. His studio walls are
covered with masks, ancient
weapons, pastel-and-ink paint-
ings and posters of past ex-
hibitions.
Katz was born in Vienna in
1926. With the outbreak of World
War II, he escaped with his family
to Hungary; where he studied to
become a musician. However, he
was sent to a concentration camp
for nine months before he escaped
— finding refuge • in the cellar of
Budapest's Swiss Consulate. It
was here that he met and joined
up with members of the Zionist
youth group, Hashomer Hatzair.
In 1945, he began to study
architecture at the Technical
Academy of Budapest, but his
studies were interrupted the fol-
lowing year when he joined the
illegal immigration (Aliyah Bet)
movement to Palestine.
The British authorities inter-
cepted his group and they were
sent to Cyprus. Katz began to
draw here amongst the thousands
of other prisoners — and it was
here that he had his first exhibi-
tion.
Ten months later, when Katz
received a passport from the
British Commonwealth, he went
to Kibbutz Eilon on the Lebanese
border, where he was to work on
the fortifications during the War
of Independence. In 1948, he went
as a pioneer to the north-western
area of the Galilee, where his
group set up a new Kibbutz, called
Ga'aton, opposite the sister kib-
butz of Yehiam.
Katz explained that the
talented individual can gain the
support of the kibbutz, as long as
he proves himself first. He ex-
plained that "the kibbutz has an
interest in developing individual
talent."
Katz's connection with a paper
proved to be commercially
worthwhile and, by the mid
1950s, he was already occupying a
leading position among Israeli ar-
tists.
One 'of the highlights of his
career came in 1961, when he won
first prize for drawing and water-
color in the Young Artists' Bien-
nale competition in Paris. He
stayed there for six months and
his exhibition was widely pub-
licized.
Katz, like any other Israeli ar-
tist faces the challenge of appeal-
ing to an international public.
With past exhibitions in Berlin,
Vienna, Paris and Teheran, he
has managed to do this. Weather
in sketches of the recent Lebanese
War, Egypt, robed Iranian fig-
ures, or depictions of the Western
Wall in the city of Jerusalem,
Katz's "fuctional art" has a uni-
versal appeal.
World Zionist Press Service