Who is Hannah Yakin?

Hannah Yakin (born Hannah van Hulst; 3 March 1933, in Amsterdam) is an Israeli artist.

During World War II, Yakin developed her artistic talents, experiencing “happy become old in which necessity bore creativity”.

After the fighting Yakin went to high school and studied art in Utrecht and in Paris as soon as Paul Colin. In 1956 she emigrated to Israel where she met and married the performer Abraham Yakin. During the first years of her marriage she concentrated chiefly on the themes of pregnancy, birth-giving and motherhood. After 1965 she created two large series of etchings, one not quite evolution, the new about music and musicians. In 1978 she took taking place writing, this epoch in English. Some of her immediate stories were published in American and Canadian educational magazines. A number of her stories were recently make known by the BBC World Service. She has published three illustrated books in little editions, as collectors’ items.