Helen Berman

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox artist | name = Helen Berman<br>הלן ברמן | image = Helen - Grey Sun.jpg | image_size = | caption = Grey Sun, 1997 | birth_name = Hélène Julia Cohen | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1936|4|6}} | birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | known_for = Painting, Drawing, Design | training = Kees Bol, Jan Gregoor, Thierry Veltman | alma_mater = Design Academy Eindhoven | style = Modern art, Postmodern art | movement = Abstract expressionism, Lyrical abstraction | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = Van Dissel textile design awards }}

'''Helen Berman''' ({{langx|he|הלן ברמן}}; born 6 April 1936) is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands. She created modern and postmodern art and has engaged in realistic impressionism and lyrical abstract expressionism.<ref name="Geldman"/>

==Biography== Helen Berman was born in Amsterdam and as a young girl survived The Holocaust.<ref>{{cite book | first = Thijs | last = Berman | title = Op zoek naar George Fles | publisher = Van Gennep | location = Amsterdam | page = 27 | quote = Hélène, een aangetrouwde tante die zelf de oorlog tenauwernood overleefde... | language = Dutch | year = 1993 | isbn = 90-6012-992-X }}</ref><ref name="Baiki">{{cite journal | last = Berman | first = Helen | title = An Enchanted Dream Came True | journal = Báiki | issue = 24 | year = 2002 | page = 22 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.salom.com.tr/news/detail/2316-Yahudi-kurtaranlara-odul.aspx | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110719072138/http://www.salom.com.tr/news/detail/2316-Yahudi-kurtaranlara-odul.aspx | archivedate = 2011-07-19 | title = Yahudi kurtaranlara ödül | language = Turkish | work = Şalom | date = 18 June 2006 | accessdate = 26 September 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bevrijdingsportretten.nl/portret/ernst-elisabeth-helene-cohen/|title=Ernst, Elisabeth & Helene Cohen|work=Bevrijdingsportretten|publisher=Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork}}</ref> She was trained as a textile designer at the Design Academy Eindhoven.<ref name="IMJ">{{citation|work=Israeli Art Center|url=http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/default.asp?artist=272140|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121218195444/http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/default.asp?artist=272140|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 December 2012|title=Helen Berman|publisher=Israel Museum|location=Jerusalem|accessdate=28 June 2008|language=Hebrew}}</ref> While at the academy, she took extracurricular coursework in the free arts with Kees Bol and Jan Gregoor.<ref name="Geldman">{{cite book |last= Geldman |first= Mordechai |title= Helen Berman: Sharon Landscapes |year= 2009 |location= Israel}}</ref> After her graduation in 1960, Helen Berman designed textiles for several companies. Some of her designs were awarded prizes and publications in professional magazines.

During the seventies, Berman studied painting and drawing with Thierry Veltman,<ref name="Sneh">{{cite news|last=Sneh|first=Nachum|title=View to the Past and Future in the Exhibition of a Painter Who Immigrated from the Netherlands|publisher=Yediot Ahronot|newspaper=Kol Hanegev|date=27 May 1983|language=Hebrew}}</ref> graduating with a teaching degree. In 1978, she immigrated to Israel, where she continued to refine her style. During a decade-long residence in Jaffa, she became part of the local artists' community and a member of the Israel Painters and Sculptors Association. Since 1998, she has been painting and exhibiting from her studio in Tel Mond.

==Exhibitions== thumb|Figure, 1995 {| border="1" class="wikitable" ! Participation ! Solo ! Group |- ! 1970s | | * 1972 – De Schoof, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands * 1979 – Youth Art Center, Beer Sheva, Israel |- ! 1980s | * 1983 – Itzik's Gallery, Beer Sheva, Israel<ref name="Sneh"/><ref name="Sheva">{{cite news|title=Landscape of Beer Sheva in a Solo Exhibition by Helen Berman|publisher=Sheva|number=603|date=20 May 1983|language=Hebrew}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Paintings of Helen Berman|newspaper=Kol Bi|number=202|date=20 May 1983|page=64|language=Hebrew}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Netherlands and Israel in an Exhibition|publisher=Maariv|newspaper=Maariv Hanegev|date=20 May 1983|language=Hebrew}}</ref> | * 1983 – ''Technology'', City Hall, Beer Sheva, Israel * 1989 – ''Animals'', Gallery 13½, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel |- ! 1990s | * 1990 – Gallery Amalia Arbel, Rishon Lezion, Israel<ref name="Argov">{{cite news|last=Argov|first=H|title=Navon and Berman in the Gallery|publisher=Haaretz|newspaper=Arim|number=205|date=16 November 1990|language=Hebrew}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Frumer|first=Shula|title=An Optimistic Wink|newspaper=Bamakom|date=16 November 1990|language=Hebrew}}</ref> * 1996 – Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel * 1997 – Schwing Residence, Old Jaffa Artists Quarter, Israel | * 1990 – ''New Faces'', Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel * 1998 – ''Festive Fruits'', Cultural Center, Tel Mond, Israel |- ! 2000s | * 2000 – Elah Center, Pninat Ayalon, Tel Aviv, Israel<ref>{{cite news|last=Peiper|first=Chen|title=Exhibition by Helen Berman|publisher=Elah|work=Infocus|year=2000|language=Dutch}}</ref> * 2003 – Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel<ref name="Geldman"/><ref>{{cite news|last=De Vries|first=Avraham|title=Helen Berman Exhibits Lyrical-Abstract Expressionism|work=Aleh|publisher=Irgoen Olei Holland|volume=60|number=1|date=April 2003|page=50|language=Dutch}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Goldfine |first=G |title=In the Frame |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |date=2003-02-21}}</ref> * 2004 – Gallery Re-Lai-S, Baden-Baden, Germany * 2006 – Residenz Bären, Baden-Baden, Germany * 2008 – Elah Center, Pninat Ayalon, Tel Aviv, Israel * 2009 – ''Sharon Landscapes'', Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.telavivcity.com/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9D/15897/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9F-%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%9F-%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%99-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F/%D7%AA%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91/ | first = Mordechai | last = Geldman | authorlink = Mordechai Geldman | work = Tel Aviv City | script-title=he:הלן ברמן / נופי השרון |trans-title=Helen Berman / Sharon Landscapes | date=April 2009 | accessdate = 22 November 2015 | language = Hebrew }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.art_item,418,208,18655,.aspx | first = Mordechai | last = Geldman | work = Achbar Ha'ir | script-title=he:תערוכות בבית האמנים ע"ש זריצקי - מאי |trans-title=Exhibitions at the Zaritisky Artists' House, May | date=April 2009 | accessdate = 6 June 2009 | language = Hebrew }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = New Exhibitions | url = http://entertainment.walla.co.il/?w=/274/1477032 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130107235316/http://entertainment.walla.co.il/?w=/274/1477032 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 7 January 2013 | date = 30 April 2009 | accessdate = 6 June 2009 | work = Haaretz / Walla! | first1 = Eli | last1 = Armon Azulay | first2 = Yuval | last2 = Sa'ar | language = Hebrew }}</ref> | * 2003 – ''Genesis'', Culture Hall, Or Akiva, Israel<ref>''Genesis (Catalogue)''. Jerusalem: Israel Association of Community Centers, 2003, page 28. {{in lang|he}}</ref> * 2004 – ''Dutch Days'', Castra Art Center, Haifa, Israel * 2007 – ''Open Park'', Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel<ref name="Globes">{{cite news |last=Peleg-Rotem |first=Hagit |url=http://www.globes.co.il/news/docview.aspx?did=1000222972 |script-title=he:רב-שיח |trans-title=Symposium |newspaper=Globes |date=2007-06-19 |accessdate=2008-11-15 |language=he}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Gilerman |first=Dana |url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/1.1415729 |script-title=he:דיוקן של כובש |trans-title=Portrait of an occupation |newspaper=Haaretz |date=2007-06-06 |accessdate=2014-08-20 |language=he}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mouse.co.il/art_item.aspx?BoneId=418&NsId=208&ObjId=8020 |script-title=he:גן העצמאות לכולם - תערוכה קבוצתית |trans-title=Independence Park for Everyone - Group Exhibition |publisher=Akhbar Ha'ir |date=2007 |accessdate=2008-06-28 |language=he |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116003433/http://www.mouse.co.il/art_item.aspx?BoneId=418&NsId=208&ObjId=8020 |archivedate=16 November 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Must See Park|publisher=Marmalade Tel Aviv|date=18 June 2007|language=Hebrew}}</ref> |- ! 2010s | * 2012 – ''Sharon Landscapes'', Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.art_item,418,208,29707,.aspx |script-title=he:הלן ברמן ומרדכי גלדמן – נופי השרון - תערוכות - מדור אמנות - עכבר העיר |language=he |trans-title=Helen Berman and Mordechai Geldman – Sharon landscapes – Exhibitions – Art Department – City Mouse |publisher=Mouse.co.il |date=2011-11-24 |accessdate=2014-05-26}}</ref> * 2017 – ''Arrived without purpose'', Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel | * 2015 – ''10 Years Gallery Re-Lai-S'', Residenz Bären, Baden-Baden, Germany |}

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