Born in Jaffa, the daughter of immigrants from Bulgaria, Ziona Tagger was the first Israeli-born woman artist. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem but found its aesthetic traditionalism (for example, its adherence to strictly representational art) too restrictive and moved to Paris to continue her training. When she returned to Mandate Palestine, she took part in exhibitions of the young modernist artists. She was known for her portraits and landscapes, whose style drew on cubism and naïve art.
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