Hanna Ben Dov

Hanna Ben Dov (Hebrew: חנה בן-דב) (1919 in Jerusalem – 2008 in Paris) was an Israeli abstract painter.

[1] Ben Dov's father, Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, was a famous Israeli photographer who founded the photography department in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1910.

[2] After the completion of her formal education she moved to Paris, where she exhibited for the first time in 1948 and has been living and working there since, as a part of the local abstract artists school.

In the atmosphere that surrounds the front line of today’s painting bursa, which loud and fast new orientations are in the top of all, as is they are objects of entertainment, and they do not leave the time to absorb, it is very nice to run into artists such as Hannah Ben Dov who lives by her own standard.

"LYRICAL ABSTRACTIONS By Hanna Ben Dov, a veteran Israeli painter who studied with Mordechai Ardon at the Bezalel School and who currently lives in Paris, contain all the right elements to make them work.