Erica Weisz Schweiger was born in Dej (Romania) in 1947. She has an M.A. from the Fine Arts Institute “Ion Andreescu” in Cluj, Textile Art and Design. In 1975 she emigrated to Beer Sheva – Israel. Until 2001 she worked as an art teacher. In her career as an artist, she presented her creations in many personal exhibitions, as well as group and collective shows. Among these, we mention the Israeli decorative art exhibition organized in 1994 at the Art Museum in Tokyo, the collective exhibition of textile art organized by Musee Royal D’Art et D’Histoire Bruxelles in 1991 and the group exhibition dedicated to Israeli textile arts by La Maison des Artistes de Marseille in 1990. Erica Weisz Schweiger is known to the Romanian public from the exhibitions at the municipal art galleries in Cluj Napoca and Sibiu, as well as from her retrospective exhibition organized in 2003 by the Art Museum in Cluj. In 2011, she participated in the project ”I Am Romanian: the Bucharest – Tel Aviv Route” organized by the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv.
Images and more information about the artist (in English, French and Hebrew): http://erica-weisz-schweiger.com/
