BIOGRAPHY

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Georgette Batlle Marx (1940-2009) was an American-Israeli artist known for her diverse artistic career spanning painting, conceptual art, and environmental installations. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, to a French mother and Catalan father, Batlle studied painting and graphic arts at the Pratt Institute in New York from 1960 to 1964.

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Batlle met her future husband, Gerard Marx, while studying at Pratt Institute. In 1966 in Brooklyn, she underwent an Orthodox conversion to Judaism. After marrying the couple initially immigrated to Israel in 1968, but subsequently lived alternately for different periods in Paris,  Jerusalem and Manhattan with their daughter Danae and son Jonathan.

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Batlle's work was characterized by its diversity, ranging from avant-garde installations to minimalist prints and traditional figurative painting. Her career trajectory reflected a move from experimental art to more personal painting styles.

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Georgette Batlle's avant-garde period in Israel was marked by several groundbreaking projects that contributed significantly to the development of environmental and conceptual art in the country.

"Jerusalem River Project" (1970)

"Boots" (1969)