Billha Zussman, Israeli Dutch artist. Folder w/ 5 etchings, ex. 3/50, illust. to Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Hop frog and the conqueror’, signed & numbered, 1974
Billha Zussman, Israeli Dutch artist Folder with 5 (from 7) etchings ex. 3/50 for Edgar Allan Poe ‘Hop frog and the conqueror’, signed and numbered, 1974.
5 etchings and 10 plates with text, size all of plates: 62.5 x 85 cm. Luxury limited edition, cloth folder with leather clasp
Condition: foxing stains; damping to margins to several plates; wear, soiling, damping to folder
Weight: 6500 gr.
Bilha Zussman - Born in Israel, she studied graphic arts in Amsterdam, where she lives now and works. She has presented exhibitions and received awards for her work around the world such as Amsterdam, Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Belgium and the United States since 1980
Israeli-born Billha Zussman studied art at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
She has both exhibited and been awarded as an innovative graphic artist, cartoonist, photographer and Judaic Art designer in the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Germany and the USA. Member of the “Jewish Art Salon” and The “American Guild of Judaic Art”.
Member of the Education Department of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Recent exhibitions:
2000-2018: cartoon exhibitions and awards
2019: Spinoza, Marrano of Reason, Amstelkerk, Amsterdam, presented by the Jewish Art Salon, NY
2018: the Invisible Jew, Detour Gallery, Red Bank, NJ, curated by the Jewish Art Salon
2018: Ritual Art Today at the Duquesne University, curated by Ben Schachter
2018: Derfner Judaica Museum: Jerusalem between Heaven and earth, presented by the Jewish Art Salon
2017: Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art: Installation: Spinoza., Marrano of Reason. Presented by Jewish Art Salon
2017: The Golem in Brooklyn, at the Brooklyn Jewish Art Gallery.
2016: Freedom imagined, Freedom Lived, curated by Naomi Fishman, at the Lindwood Scheidegger Center for the Arts, Missouri, USA. Awarded for the photo Installation “Shirat Nashim or The Silence of the Sirens”
2015: Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art. Presented the animation film: “Sjnoder – Anatomy of Tzedakah”
2014: Launched her “Tootland Production/animation films
2014, 2015 created two short animation films: Ruler and ”Sjnoder – Anatomy of Tzedakah”
2013: Golden Ghetto Award, Venice, Italy.
2013: The American Jewish Museum of Greater Pittsburgh, “A Stitch in Jewish Time”