Batia Grossbard

Batia Friedkes Grossbard (April 14, 1910 – August 11, 1995) was a Polish-born Israeli painter influenced by American abstract expressionism.
Biography.
Grossbard attended and graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland. She worked with watercolor and oil paints, as well as producing lithographs.
In 1938, she immigrated to Palestine. After resettling there, she served with the British Army and later settled in Haifa and married the painter Yehoshua Grossbard.
In 1954, she studied at the atelier of André Lhote in Paris. She was a member of the Ein Hod artists' colony in Haifa and of the Artists and Sculptors Association in Israel.
In 1966, "Lines and Trees," a collection of her work, was published. Her work includes mountainscapes of the post-Six Day War period through the 1970s. Her later work was much more abstract.