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Shoshannah Brombacher

AMSTERDAM-JERUSALEM-BERLIN-NEW YORK Shoshannah Brombacher (Amsterdam, Holland 1959) studied studied Semitic Languages, Ancient Middle Eastern Culture and Codicology at the University of Leyden (Holland) and specialized in medieval Sephardic Hebrew poetry. Her Ph.D. thesis describes the Portuguese (Marano) Jewish Community in 17th century Amsterdam. She was involved in codicological projects with manuscripts, tombstones and books in Amsterdam, Jerusalem and Germany and lectured at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Though she attended art classes in Leyden and at the Free Art Academy of The Hague in Holland she considers herself mainly self taught. She sees her academic background and her traveling from country to country as an invaluable tool for her paintings, which delve deeply into Jewish lore and legends. After her marriage she moved to New York and devotes all her time to her art and to her husband and two children. She is an author, lecturer and a maggidah (certified Jewish preacher, story teller and spiritual guide) and combines this with her art. Her main interest is Chassidism. The artist lives with her family in Midwood, Brooklyn. Brombacher’s favorite medium is oil, pastel, crayons and/or ink. She makes very small miniatures as well as large panels to cover a wall. Many drawings are calligraphic. Text, letters and colors play an important role. Brombacher’s subjects are mainly Jewish (Chassidic) life and stories, classical music, and travel impressions. She illustrates books, designs book covers (e.g. for Yitzhak Buxbaums’s The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov, and collects, writes and illustrates Chassidic stories. Brombacher participates in several blogs and websites (Breslov, Chabad.org), and takes commissions. She created sets and series with some of the following themes: The Golem of Prague; The Tikkun of the Breslover Rebbe; Talmudic stories; Biblical books and stories, the 5 Megillot, Yona, Shemuel, biblical women; the parshat hashavua; midrashim, the Twelve Tribes; Goethe’s Faust; poetry (Yiddish, Sephardic, several European languages); Jewish Holidays (e.g. Ushpizin); the Haggadah; the Hebrew Aleph-Beth; classical composers, especially Beethoven; New York (especially after 9/11), Chassidic stories, ‘Dybbuk – Tzvishen Tzvay Velten’ from Anski. Brombacher creates a lot of custom art, like ketubot, verses of a name, tikkunim, blessings for the house, parnasah an many other occasions, Psalms, bar/bat mitzvah, sheva’ berakhot, (cover) illustrations for books, etc. For more information visit the website of the artist, or contact her: www.absolutearts.com/shoshannah e-mail: shoshbm@gmail.com Tel.: 718- 339 2779 Artist Statement Art makes the world within visible. My art is a tribute to music and to our heritage, especially the Chassidic world. The Kotzker Rebbe listened once to a story teller in the street, and stated: ‘ He told what he wanted and I heard what I needed’. That is art. Main Exhibitions: Liberaal Joodse Gemeente, The Hague, Holland (solo) University of Leyden, Holland Rova haYehudit, Jerusalem (solo) Podaytzer Synagogue, NY (solo) Brownstone Gallery, NY Tribeca 148 Gallery, NY Silver Palette Gallery, Cedarhurst NJ Neumann/Shaynberg Galleries, NY Gallery 124, Springfield NJ Cong. B’nai Avraham NY (several solo exhibitions) Cong. Mount Sinai, NY (several solo) Camille’s Clover Hill, NY (both group and solo) Grand Hotel Heerlen, Holland (solo) Kunsthuis Huebens, Maastricht, Holland Staten Island Community Center (SI, NY) Brooklyn Jewish Art Gallery BJAG, Park Slope, NY; Union of American Hebrew Congregations UAHC in Manhattan, NY (solo) Riverdale Temple, NY (solo) Beth El Florida Art Festival Tealounge, Brooklyn, NY (solo) Palm Beach Center for Jewish Art, FL Salon de Quartier, New York (solo) KVB, New York (solo) Terror: Artists Respond, New York Freyberger Gallery, Reading Pa Sixth Street Community Synagogue, New York (solo) Membership of art organizations: -American Guild of Judaic Art -Jewish Art Salon -Atara -Jewish Women Artist’s Network Shoshannah Brombacher participated in many auctions, fundraising, minor shows. She was awarded several prizes. Her work is represented in private collections in Europe, the US, Israel, South Africa, Egypt and South America, and in synagogues, yeshivot, hospices, corporations and private institutions. Many works were commissioned. Brombacher likes to do mitzvoth through her art.