Biography

Rina Sutzkever was born in Moscow in 1945 in a home infused with the love of culture. Her father, the poet Abraham Sutzkever, was awarded the Israel Prize for literature. Rina immigrated to Israel with her family in 1948.

Rina Sutzkever stands out among contemporary artists as steadfast rock against which changing artistic streams and trends break and disappear. Since she started her artistic career, she has remained faithful to her realistic, classical style and her romantic a lyrical tendencies.

Her first steps as a professional artist can be traced to her work with the artist Nahum Gilboa. Later she continued working with Moshe Rozentalis and then studied sketching with Prof. Shwartzman. Sutzkever has gradually perfected her style with help of the tempera oil mixed technique, which she learned at Earnest Fux's school in Vienna.

Sutzkever possesses an innate talent, which enables her to express a rich spectrum of feelings. The women in her portraits are beautiful, romantic and their delicate smile symbolized an aspiration to the indefinable, The flowers the trees and the woods are painted expressively in the Pissaro style.

The outstanding feature in Rina Sutzkever's paintings at present concentrates on combining the beauty of reflection, fantasy and imagination. It looks as if the worldly objects intervene and penetrate one another and at the same time disperse and vanish in the universe like a dream, Rina Sutzkever's dream. After contemplating her painting for a certain length of time the onlookers imaginations fully evoked and the mind experiences an unrealistic and unexpected adventure.

Many well-known artists, such as Mordechai Ardon, as well as prominent people such as Mr. Shimon Peres, Israel's former Prime Minaster, admire her paintings. Mr. Shimon Peres signed the visitors book at one of Sutzkever's exhibitions expressing his appreciation in the followings words: "…and unexpected rich talent,… a rare combination of feminine sensitivity and true technique,… a clever reflection of shadows and imagination,… a fusion of arrogance and delicacy".
 

Exhibitions

1973 - Yad Lebanim
1974 - Levik House, Art Gallery
1975 - Yad Lebanim
1977 - Levik House, Art Gallery
1981 - Shulamit Gallery
1983 - Shulamit Gallery
1985 - 131/2, Art Gallery
1988 - Gallery 30
1989 - 131/2, Art Gallery
1989 - Yad Lebanim
1990 - 'Chan Theatre"
1991 -  Shulamit Gallery
1992 - Bruno Gallery
1993 - Gallery '93
1993 - Art Expo
1994 - Gallery 30
1994 -  Art Expo
1995 - Bruno Gallery
1996 - Art Expo
1997 - Yorek Gallery
 

Tel-Aviv
Tel-Aviv
Patach-Tikva
Raanana
Tel-Aviv
Tel-Aviv
Tel-Aviv
Tel-Aviv
Tel-Aviv
Ramet-Ha Sharon
Jerusalem
Tel-Aviv
Tel-Aviv
London
New-York
Tel-Aviv
New-York
King David Hotel, Jerusalem
New York
Ramat_Ha Sharon