Ein-Hod The Artists Village

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Artist:

Marcel Janco

Location:


Near Haifa

Size:

Hundreds of studios & galleries

Material:

Date:

1953

Description
Caption “On the road to Haifa lies Ein Hod, an artists' village on a hill, at the foot of Mount Carmel overlooking the Mediterranean coast, the town of Atlit, and an ancient 12th century crusader fortress. After the War of Independence the area was abandoned and left in ruin. In the fifties, a group of artists led by the acclaimed Dada artist Marcel Janco decided that Ein Hod would be a place where they could work, build studios and workshops, and form a creative environment for art and art education. The founders' dream ran into the harsh reality of those days.   
By perseverance and vision gradually transformed Ein Hod into the only artists' village in Israel, one of the few in the world, where artists live and create in every artistic media from the visual arts, to theater, music and literature.”
To read more about Ein-Hod go to: [http://www.ein-hod.info/about/aboutus.htm]

Other References For a video tour of Ein-Hod go to: [Click to view a movie: Ein Hod 1953-2011 >]
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