Elisheva Cohen

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Elisheva Cohen (born as Else Benjamin January 9, 1911 in Frankfurt am Main ; died December 20, 1989 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was an Israeli art historian and curator.

Life

Else Benjamin's father Heinrich Benjamin was a businessman in Frankfurt and emigrated with his wife Johanna Dülken to France in 1933 and from there to Palestine in 1936. Benjamin attended the Elisabethenschule in Frankfurt and, after graduating from high school in 1930, began studying art history in Munich, Berlin, Zurich, Frankfurt and Marburg. After the seizure of power in 1933, Benjamin broke off his studies and fled to France. In August 1933 she married the German rabbi and lawyer Haim Hermann Cohn in Strasbourg and emigrated with him to Palestine. He set up a law practice and she took care of the two children born there.

After the divorce in 1955, she worked from 1956 as a conservator for drawings and prints at the Bezalel National Museum in Jerusalem. The collection was transferred to the newly founded Israel Museum in 1965 . There she organized exhibitions and catalogs as main curator. She organized the integration of Anna Ticho's house into a department of the Israel Museum. Cohen was a member of the board of directors of the Israel Museum and a representative on the Israel Museum Council. She was on the editorial board of the art magazine Ariel .

In 1975 she retired. In 1977 she received an Israel Prize and in 1988 she became an honorary citizen of Jerusalem ( Yakir Yerushalayim ).

Publications (selection)

curated exhibitions
  • Louise Schatz: water colors . Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1969
  • Jerusalem, in representations from the 19th to the 20th century . City Museum Trier , 1972
  • Leopold Krakauer: drawings . Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1974
  • Moritz Oppenheim, the first Jewish painter . Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1983

literature

  • Cohen, Elisheva , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, pp. 89-90
  • Cohen, Elisheva , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 190

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personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Elisheva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1989
Place of death Jerusalem