Eva Samuel
Ceramicist, Painter, Sculptor, Illustrator, Zionist
Eva Samuel, after aliyah: חוה סמואל (Chava Samuel), was born on 16 November 1904 in Essen, Germany, and the daughter of a Reform rabbi. She was a pioneering Israeli ceramicist and co-founder of the Ceramic Artists Association of Israel, where she died on 3 October 1989.
Samuel received her education at the School of Trades and Applied Arts (later Folkwang School of Design) in Essen, Worpswede artists’ colony, Margaretenhöhe ceramics workshop, and she studied ceramics chemistry in Stuttgart.
She was renowned for her unique fusion of European ceramic forms with painted motifs taken from her observations of diverse communities in British Mandate Palestine, including Yemenite Jews and Arab populations.
Together with Paula Aronsohn, she opened the Kad va-Sefel (Jug and Mug) workshop in Rishon Le-Zion in 1934, which then remained in continuous operation for 45 years.
The doll maker Edith Samuel, who also immigrated to British Mandate Palestine, was her sister.
Eva Samuel; Old Synagogue Essen, Archive
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