Shmuel Ben David
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Shmuel Ben David studied under Boris Schatz
at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria
. He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1906 when Schatz founded the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. Ben David established and taught in the department of carpet design until 1912.
Boris Schatz
Boris Schatz was a Lithuanian Jewish artist and sculptor who founded the Bezalel School in Jerusalem.-Biography:Boris Schatz was born in Varniai, Kaunas district, Lithuania, under the rule of the Russian Empire in 1867. His father, a teacher in a cheder , sent him to study in a yeshiva in...
at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
. He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1906 when Schatz founded the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. Ben David established and taught in the department of carpet design until 1912.