Naomi Henrik, 1962

Naomi Henrik (Hebrew: נעמי הנריק, sometimes Noemi Hanreck) (June 11, 1920-March 23, 2018) was an Israeli sculptor. She is best known for the Memorial for the Pioneers of the Road to Jerusalem ("Monument for the Pathbreakers to Jerusalem") on a hill overseeing Sha'ar HaGai.[1]

Biography

Naomi Henrik was born in the city of Akkerman in Bessarabia to the family of gynecologist dr. Shaul Zellering (Russian: Цалеринг, Tzalering). In 1930 she and her family immigrated to the Land of Israel.[1]

She studied at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium and the Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv. She studied sculpture with Zeev Ben-Zvi in Jerusalem and in 1945 she moved to London to continue her studies in sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art.[1]

During World War II she met her future husband Ron, and they were married in 1945. They had daughter, Ruthie Henrik-Steinitz.[2]

During 1971-1972 she headed the Artists' House in Jerusalem.[1]

Naomi Henrik died at her home in Ein Kerem.[2]

Work

Monument for the Pathbreakers to Jerusalem
Monument to the Martyrs of the 679th Brigade

1974: Monument to the Martyrs of the 679th Brigade[3][2]

1967: Memorial for the Pioneers of the Road to Jerusalem ("Monument for the Pathbreakers to Jerusalem")[4]

In 1962 she won the competition for the monument at Yad Vashem "to symbolize the heroism of the Jews during the Holocaust" (The runner-up was Nathan Rapoport), but unfortunately her project was never realized and eventually in 1970 the Pillar of Heroism by Buky Schwartz was erected instead. [5][6]

She also devoted herself to works in mosaic.[2]

Awards

  • 1964: Defense Ministry Prize for War of Independence Monument[1]
  • 1965: Monument Design Prize, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Noemi Hanreck", Information Center for Israeli Art
  2. 1 2 3 4 Naama Riva, מתה נעמי הנריק, מעצבת אנדרטת פורצי הדרך בעלייה לירושלים, Haaretz, March 25, 2018
  3. ↑ סיבוב באנדרטה לחללי חטיבה 679 בגולן, by Michael Jacobson
  4. ↑ "Inauguration of the Memorial for the Pioneers of the Road to Jerusalem" (video at the Israeli Film Archive, 1967)
  5. ↑ פרס ראשון לאמנית _*תשלמית לתכנון גלעד הגבורה בבירה, Davar, November 29, 1962
  6. ↑ Doron Bar, Yad Vashem: The Challenge of Shaping a Holocaust Remembrance Site, 1942–1976, 2021, ISBN 3110721619, p. 170

Further reading

  • Esther Levinger, "Women and War Memorials in Israel", Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 16, no. 1 (1995), pp. 40–46. doi:10.2307/1358629
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