Dina Merhav

Dina Merhav (born; 1936) is a Croatia born Israeli sculptor.

Merhav was born in Vinkovci to a Croatian Jewish family of Zlatko and Steffi (née Wachster) Gross. During World War II her father, as an Royal Yugoslav Army officer, was captured and imprisoned at the war camp in Germany. Merhav, her mother and rest of the family managed to escape to Split, from there to Switzerland through Italy. After the war they returned to Croatia to be reunited with their father (husband). In 1949 whole family made Aliyah to Israel. In Israel she studied and graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. After graduation Merhav started to work as graphic designer. During her career she worked as an instructor of graphic design and sculpture at the Hadassa Wizo College of Design in Haifa, Art Department at the University of Haifa and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. From 1984 to 1985 Merhav studied sculpture at the University of Haifa. In 1984 she attended the stone sculpture seminar in Pietrasanta, Italy. In 1998 the city of Haifa awarded Merhaw the "Herman Struck Best Artist of the Year" Prize. Merhav frequently visits her birth country and exhibits in the various museums across the Croatia. In 2013 Merhav opened an exhibition "Ptice u letu" (Birds in Flight) in Zagreb. She also has published the poetry book "For You With Love". Merhav works in her sculpture studio in Kibbutz Nir Ezion and lives in Ein Hod.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

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