Chana orloff biography
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Chana Orloff
Ukrainian sculptor (1888–1968)
Chana Orloff (Hebrew: חנה אורלוף; 12 July 1888 – 16 December 1968) was a Ukrainian-born French and IsraeliArt deco and figurative art sculptor.
Biography
Chana Orloff was born the eighth of nine children in a village called Kamenka, also known by the name of Tsaraconstantinovka,[1]Russian Empire (now Ukraine).[2] It was an agricultural colony in the Kherson district, Alexandrovesk county, Ekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovskaya) province in southeastern Ukraine, on the coast of the Sea of Azov, part of the Black Sea.[2] The largest nearby city was Mariupol, the second largest port city after Odessa in the Southern Russian Empire.
As a teenager she took classes in sewing and dressmaking in Mariupol to ensure she could earn a living and avoid an arranged marriage.[2]
In order to escape the pogroms in this period in Ukraine, Orloff immigrated with her family to Ottoman Palestine in 1905 and s