13 Facts About Zahara Schatz

Zahara Schatz, was an Israeli artist and designer.

Zahara Schatz was the daughter of Boris Schatz, who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.

Zahara Schatz was best known for the six-branched menorah she designed for the entrance to the Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.

Zohara Schatz was born on July 20,1916, in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Sanjak, Ottoman Empire.

Zahara Schatz's father was Boris Schatz and her brother was artist Bezalel or "Lilik".

Zahara Schatz studied at the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs in Paris from 1934 to 1937.

However Zahara followed her father's dualism: the pursuit of both fine art and crafts.

Zahara Schatz started working in plastic in the 1940s, designing and building acrylic lamps.

Zahara Schatz lived in Berkeley, California, where she was close with courtroom sketch artist Rosalie Ritz, her husband Erwin Ritz and their daughter, publisher and managing editor of The Environmentalist, Janet Ritz.

In 1951, Zahara Schatz won an award for the Table Lamp Model No T-4-S, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Zahara Schatz's winning table lamp design was manufactured by the Heifez Company, the sponsor of the MoMA competition.

Zahara Schatz worked as an adviser on industrial design at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for Israel.

Zahara Schatz died of a long illness in Jerusalem on August 4,1999, at the age of 83.