Chana Orloff was born in Ukraine. She immigrated to Ottoman palestine in 1905 and settled in Jaffa, where she found a job as a cutter and seamstress. She joined Hapoel Hatzair workers movement. Later She went to Paris where she shifted her interest from fashion to art. she studied sculpture at theAcademie Russe in Montparnasse, and became friends with other young jewish artists among them Marc Chagall ,Jacques Lipchitz ,Amedeo Modigliani,Pascin, Chaim Soutine , and Ossip Zadkine , In 1916, she married Ary Justman, a Warsaw-born writer and poet. The couple had a son, but Ary died in the epidemic in 1919. When the Nazis invaded Paris, Orloff fled to Switzerland with her son and the Jewish painter Georges Kars. In February 1945, Orloff returned to Paris with her son, her house had been ransacked and the sculptures in her studio destroyed. After the establishment of the Jewish state, Orloff began to spend more and more time in israel. Tel-aviv museum held an exhibition for her in1949. Orloff died in Israel on December 16, 1968.
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