Welcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah ShabeidWelcome to the collection of works by the artist Noah Shabeid
About
Noah Shavid was born in southeastern Poland in 1909, one of many children to poor Polish Jewish parents.
In his youth he showed clear artistic inclinations, went out to photograph himself in the Carpathian Mountains, and played the accordion in the Polish Army Orchestra. He married Zosha (later Naomie) Bernanke, a Polish Jewish woman, and in the 1930s the two immigrated to Palestine as part of the "Hachshara". Several of his siblings also immigrated to Palestin soon thereafter, (one of his older brothers, Zvi Israel Shavid, became a renowned Hebrew writer, translator, poet, and journalist; the father of the prominent thinker Eliezer Shavid.)
In Palestine, Noah and Naomi settled in the North of the country, in the outskirts of Haifa, an area known as “the Krayot”, and he was forced to abandon his dreams of a career as a professional artist, and support his family engaging in manual labor as a builder. He earned his reputation mainly from his ability to pave beautifully arranged entry pathways, and throughout Haifa and the Krayot you can still find paths he made at the entrances to various houses.
In the late 1930s, Noah and Naomi's first son, Elyahu (Ely) was born, and in the mid 1940s, their daughter, Ariela, was born.
After the children grew up, and from the moment the small family moved to Kiryat Bialik to their own home (which Noah built with his own hands), Noah turned to the art that particularly attracted him: sculpture.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he sculpted dozens of sculptures most of which were kept in his home. From time to time he used to approach some public figures, venues or committees with proposals to create sculptures for a public space, but his proposals were never accepted. Noah passed away at the age of 75 without having the privilege of exhibiting his art.
About twenty years later, his daughter Ariela, who herself became an artist, created a number of works of art as a tribute to her father’s art. Noah died in the mid-1980s.
In the middle of 2021, we, Noah's grandchildren, and Ariella's children, renovated our mother's house, where dozens of our grandfather's sculptures were kept. In the process it occurred to us that documenting our grandfather’s art could be a more significant gesture than storing the sculptures in a warehouse where no one would get to see them. To this end, we made sure that the sculptures were professionally photographed, by photographer Omer ….. and we set up this website dedicated to Noah's works.
The purpose of the site is twofold: we seek to pay homage to our grandfather, but we also believe that the historical record of his artistic expression is significant not only as an individual but as an individual representing a generation and period that are a significant crossroad in the history of Israeli society. It is our personal tribute to our grandparents and to our mother, and in our hearts we also hope to make our works accessible to professional or amateur researchers now or in the future.
We grant permission to use all the images in this website provided that the proper credit is given to the artist. If you are seeking any further information you can leave us a message here.
Amalia and Ido
