David Ben-Shaul (1932-2018)

David Ben-Shaul was born in 1932 in Jerusalem. In his youth, he was Hedwig Grossman Lehmann’s assistant. In the late 1950s he traveled to Paris where he studied printmaking and especially lithography. Upon returning to Israel in the early 1960s, he brought with him a lithographic press and founded a studio where he printed lithographs for different artists. His early works were influenced by the French Informel and other avant-garde trends. During the 1960s-1970s his work became more expressive, sometimes combining text, influenced by the Mashkof group of which he was a member. From the 1980s onward, his work, in sugar-lift, focuses mostly on landscape. His works can be found among the collections of the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and many others.

Education
1945-1951 Ceramic with Hedwig Grossman and Rudi Leheman, Jerusalem
1949-1951 Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and the Arts, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1952-1950 Sculpture by Trude Chaim, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1954-1956 Woodcuts by Jacob Pins and Isidor Aschheim, Jerusalem
1959 Painting and lithography at the Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
1959-1962 Studied painting and lithography at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris

Solo Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1963 Lithographs, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
1965 Pastels – Lithographies, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1966 Pastels and Lithographs, Masada Gallery of Art, Tel Aviv
1987 Prints of Death and Life, 1959-1987, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1965 Graphic Works by Contemporary Israeli artists – New Acquisitions, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1967 The First Exhibition of Israeli Graphic-Art, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
1967 The First Exhibition of Israeli Graphic-Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1982 The Print Art in Israel, Omanot Laam, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1983 Contemporary Graphic-Art in Israel, Mounting Exhibition, USA
1984 Prints, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1988 Not Every print is a Lithograph, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1988 Group Exhibition, Kiryat Tivon
1989 Etchings of Poems, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1991 Back to Painting in Israeli Prints, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1991 Thirty by Forty, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1993 Homage to the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2004 Printing Color, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2006 Three exhibitions of Etching works, The Negev Museum of Art, Be’er Sheva
2007 On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2007 On Paper: Prints by Israeli Artists, Ashdod Art Museum
2012 Aspects of Black, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2014 Workshop Myth: Four Decades. Body, Place, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 Lithography Notebook: A tribute to Israel Hirshfeld, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 Dialogue: Sidon Rothenberg and the Print Workshop Artists, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem