Grete Peery

Grete Peery (born 24 February 1931 in Vienna as Margarethe Pisker ) is an Austro - Israeli painter .

Life

Margarethe Pisker was illegally brought into the territory of German-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1941 . She and her mother survived the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich mainly through forged identity cards.

From 1947 she attended a school for fashion drawing in Prague and returned to Vienna in 1949 before emigrating to Israel in 1951 . There she worked until 1964 as a ceramic painter and draftsman at the Lapid ceramics factory in Tel Aviv . After that, the Peery, who lived in Rishon LeZion , held various exhibitions, especially from 1975 onwards. Peery was an active member of the Zionist organization Gordonia .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1981: Beit Yad le Banim. Rishon LeZion
• 1982: Beit Zwi, Ramat Gan City Museum
• 1988: Künstlerhaus, Tel Aviv
• 1994: Sarah Ehrman Gallery, Tel Aviv

literature

• Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 2490–2491.
• Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 212f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).