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Steffa Reis has dedicated a large group of her realistic/schematic works to the places in which she has lived.
Upon making Aliyah to Israel in 1957, the young Reis family settled on Kibbutz Ein Harod in the Jezreel Valley. Fascinated by the landscape, she painted the lush greenery and wide lawns of her environment. Interestingly, she created these works in the 1980s, many years later, reflecting her continuous connection to that setting. In 1968, when the family moved to Safed in Upper Galilee, she set up her own studio and gallery for the first time. Here, she responded to the picturesque features of this historic medieval town. In numerous works – mainly in black-and-white drawings, she depicted the stone houses, narrow alleyways and hilltop vistas of the Jewish and Arab quarters. And when in 1980, she set up a second studio in Tel Aviv, she captured in her paintings the dazzling bright light and open blue sky of this urban coastal setting; the jumbled rooftops and antennas, as seen from her balcony; the windswept boats and numerous flagpoles jostling in the marina.

Steffa Reis has dedicated a large group of her realistic/schematic works to the places in which she has lived.

Upon making Aliyah to Israel in 1957, the young Reis family settled on Kibbutz Ein Harod in the Jezreel Valley. Fascinated by the landscape, she painted the lush greenery and wide lawns of her environment. Interestingly, she created these works in the 1980s, many years later, reflecting her continuous connection to that setting. In 1968, when the family moved to Safed in Upper Galilee, she set up her own studio and gallery for the first time. Here, she responded to the picturesque features of this historic medieval town. In numerous works – mainly in black-and-white drawings, she depicted the stone houses, narrow alleyways and hilltop vistas of the Jewish and Arab quarters. And when in 1980, she set up a second studio in Tel Aviv, she captured in her paintings the dazzling bright light and open blue sky of this urban coastal setting; the jumbled rooftops and antennas, as seen from her balcony; the windswept boats and numerous flagpoles jostling in the marina.

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