Haim Gamzu

Haim Gamzu (Hebrew: חיים גמזו; May 18, 1910 – February 16, 1982) (also Haim Gamzou) was an Israeli art and drama critic, founder of the "Beit Zvi" Theater School and one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art building on King Saul Boulevard.

Haim Gamzu was born in Chernigov, Russia (now Chernihiv) in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to Yerichmiel ben Rabbi Yaakov Gamzo of Pinsk and Lamosia, née Khotortsky. He began studying in a Hebrewschool, and in 1923, his family immigrated to Israel, at the time Mandatory Palestine. In The British Mandate of Palestine, he completed his studies at the Herzliya" Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. There he fell in love with Hanaka Weinberg-Haruti and for several years sent her love letters. He then studied at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Sorbonne in Paris, and philosophy at the University of Vienna, from which he received a doctorate.

He wrote theatre and art criticism regularly for the Haaretz newspaper from 1942 until 1976.^[1] In 1947 he was attacked by a friend of an Actor from the Mi, Her, Him (Li La Lo) theatre and suffered a concussion.^[2]

In 1944, he wrote such a venomous criticism of the painter Isaac Frankel that the term "Legmaz" was introduced into the world.^[3]

He authored books in the field of fine arts, as well as a book describing his travels in South America, entitled "The Poetry of the Kitzel," which was published in 1949.^[4]

He founded the "Beit Zvi" School of Performing Arts in Ramat Gan in 1961, and directed it until 1962. He also served as director of the Tel Aviv Museum between 1947 and 1949 and between 1962 and 1976.^[5][6]

In February 1962, he received the rank of Knight of the French Legion of Honour for his contribution to the development of cultural ties between Israel and France.

Gamzo died in 1982 in Ra'anana and was buried in the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery.^[7]

テルアビブ美術館の芸術振興賞は彼の名にちなんで名付けられている。2003年には、彼の批評エッセイ集がこの賞を受賞した。^{[ 8 ]}

ガムズーは1962年にテルアビブ博物館の館長に任命された。彼はラマト・ガンにイスラエル初の演劇学校であるベイト・ツヴィを設立した。

ガムズはイスラエルの絵画や彫刻に関する著書を数冊執筆し、ハアレツ紙で美術・演劇評論家として働いた。^{[ 10 ]}

辛辣な演劇評論で知られるガムズの姓は、演劇を酷評する、より一般的には殺すという意味の新しいヘブライ語の動詞ligmozに変化した。この用語はエフライム・キションによって作られた。^{[ 11 ] [ 12 ]}

• イスラエル劇場
• イスラエルの視覚芸術