Dov Heller (1937-2018)

Dov Heller was born in 1937 in Bucharest, Romania. During World War II he remained with relatives while his parents immigrated to Eretz Israel. He joined them in 1949. This event recurs in his later works. In 1955 he joined Kibbutz Nirim. Though he worked in print all through his artistic years, in the 1990s this medium became central for him. In 1997 Heller founded in the old cowshed of the kibbutz the Wolfgang Meyer Etching Workshop.

Education
1962 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1967-1972 Beazlel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

Awards And Prizes
1963 Regional Concil Ma’on Prize for Art
1966 Mendel N. Fisher Prize, The Jewish National Fund (JNF)
1966-1967, Be’er Sheva Municipality Award for Art
1972 Herman Struck Prize for Printing, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1976 Yizhak Ben Menachem Award, Kibbutz Artzi Federation
1989 Havazelet Foundation Prize, Kibbutz Artzi Federation
2015 Havazelet Foundation Prize, Kibbutz Artzi Federation

Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2000 Bougainvillea, Ha’ Kibbutz, Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2002 Nevus, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2003 Mother and Father Have Gone to Palestine, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Kibbutz Be’eri
2004 Mother Loved Cinema, Ha’ Kibbutz, Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2011 Tel Gamma, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2017 Journeys, The Negev Museum of Art, Be’er Sheva
2019 Field of Sacred Apples, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2021 Dov Heller: Nirim, Rawart, Tel aviv-Yafo

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1973 Graphic Art in Israel Today, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1988 Silkscreen in Art and Industry, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1991 Thirty by Forty, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1993 Feeback – Painting / Sculpture / Print, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1993 Homage to the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1995 Sculptors’ Prints, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2004 Printing Color, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2005 Red Flag, Wolfgang Meyer Etching Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim
2005 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
2009 Master Printer: Djanogly Print Workshop, Jerusalem, The Open University, Raanana
2010 10 Artists’ Books, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2011 May 1st in Nirim, Wolfgang Meyer Etching Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim
2012 Boiling Blood, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2012 The Gottesman Center, Kibbutz Cabri
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2016 TziUrim Gallery, Kibbutz Urim
2017 The Gottesman Center, Kibbutz Cabri
2018 No pasarán: Eighty years of the Spanish Civil War, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem