Chaim Kiewe

Chaim Kiewe (Hebrew:חיים קיוה; October 8, 1912 in Dlottowen, German Empire – May 12, 1983 in Bat Yam, Israel) was an Israeli artist.

His parents Luis Kiewe and Johanna Toller, the only Jewish family in the village, owned an inn and a horse ranch.

As a teenager he moved to Berlin, where he graduated high school and joined the Zionist youth movement HaHalutz.

In the 1940s he was a member of the "Hagana" organisation and in the year 1947 he was arrested in wake of "Operation Agatha" (Black Saturday).

After a couple of months he came back to Israel and in 1953 he grounded with J. Zaritzky and A. Steimazky the painting seminar of the kibbutz movement.