Heddy Kun

Heddy Kun (born 1936) is an Israeli painter.[1]

Heddy Kun
Born1936
Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, (now Croatia)
NationalityCroat, Israeli

Biography

Heddy Kun was born in Zagreb. Her parents and younger brother, Eliezer, were murdered in the Holocaust. They were all sent to the gas chambers in Auschwitz concentration camp. Kun escaped from the Nazis and hid in Budapest with her grandmother and her older brother, Shalom. After studying in the Budapest Academy of Art, she immigrated to Israel in 1956.[2] Her son is the Israeli-American painter Shay Kun.[3]

Art career

Kun has had many exhibitions in Israel[1] and in New York, and also in London, Budapest, Sydney, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Toronto, Rome and Brussels.

References
  1. Sue Fishkoff (1996-10-10). "Hungarian exhibit opens in Tel Aviv". Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
  2. "Heddy Kun Biography". www.heddykun.co.il. Archived from the original on 2013-01-08. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
  3. Tylevich, Katya (2012). "Holocaust Toys" (PDF). Elephant Magazine (11): 36–40. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-25.


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