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Igael Tumarkin is an Israeli painter and sculptor.
Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Igael Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theater actor and director. His mother, Berta Gurevitch and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. Tumarkin served in the Israeli Sea Corps. After completing his military service, he studied sculpture in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel.
Igael Tumarkin is famous for the memorial sculpture of the Holocaust in the central square of Tel Aviv (Rabin Square), and for some sculptures situated in the Negev. Tumarkin is also a theoretician and stage designer.
The 1950s found Tumarkin in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. Tumarkin created assemblages of found objects, generally with violent Expressionist undertones and decidedly unlyrical color. His determination to "be different" influenced his younger Israeli colleagues. The furor generated around Igael Tumarkin's works, such as the old pair of trousers stuck to one of his pictures, intensified the mystique surrounding him.
TIMELINE
1933
Born October 23, in Dresden, Germany
1935
Emigrated to Palestine, Israel
1951–1953
Military service in the Israeli Army
1954
Worked in the studio of sculptor Rudi Lehmann
1955
Moved to Berlin, Germany, and joined Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble as a set designer and produced his first iron sculptures
1955–1957
Worked as an assistant to the designer Karl von Appen
1961
Moved back to Israel
1963
First Prize for Memoria of "Choulikat"
1966–1967
Trips to Europe, USA, Africa, and Australia
1968
Sandberg Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
First Prize for Memorial to Sailors, haifa
1971
First Prize for Memorial for "Holocaust and Resurrection," Tel Aviv
1977
Traveled to India, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Tu nisia, morocco, Senegal, Mali, Upper Volta, Mexico, Peru, and other places
2004
Awarded Israel Prize Laureate
EDUCATION
1954
Studied with Rudi Lehmann, Ein-Hod
1955
Studied with Bertolt Brecht, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin
1955-1957
Assistant to the designer Karl von Appen
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
1963
First Prize for Battle of Hulaykat Monument
1968
The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
First Prize for Memorial to Sailors, Haifa
1971
First Prize for Memorial for "Holocaust and Revival", Tel Aviv
1978
First Prize in the Biennale for Drawing, Reike
1984
Award from the President of the Italian Republic
1985
Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture
1990
Guest of the Japan Foundation
1992
August Rodin Prize, The International Sculpture Competition of the Open Museum, Hakone, Japan, for his sculpture of the sign at the entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp Arbeit Macht Frei.
1997
Award of Excellence, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
1998
Sussman Prize, Vienna
2004
Israel Prize for sculpture
OUTDOOR AND PUBLIC ART
1962-1968
"Panorama", concrete and steel, Arad, Israel
1962-1969
"Age of Science", concrete and steel, Dimona
1963
"Vibrations A & B", concrete, Kiryat Yam and "Window to the Sea", concrete, Atlit
1964-65
"Monument for the Holocaust", concrete and steel, Nazareth
1966
"Peace Memorial", Hebron Road, Jerusalem
1968
"Big Chief", tank assemblage painted, Kiryat Shmona
1969-1971
"War and Peace", steel and stone, Ramat-Gan
1970
"Keystone Gate", painted steel, Jerusalem
"Homage to Dürer, painted steel, Haifa
1971
"Homage to Jerusalem", Givat Shapira
Sculpture Garden, 61 Weizmann Street, Holon
1971-75
"Monument to the Holocaust and Revival", corten and glass, Tel Aviv
1972
"Happenings and Homage to Kepler", concrete and painted steel, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv; "Sundial Garden", concrete, Ashkelon; and "Monument to the Fallen", concrete painted white and steel, Jordan Valley
1972-73
"Airport Monument", painted steel, Lod
1973
"Challenge to the Sun", Ramot Alon, Jerusalem
1986
"Chichen Itzma", Kiryat Menahem, Jerusalem
Pisgat Zeev, Jerusalem
1989
Homage to Robert Capa, Pozoblanco, Spain
La Liberte, Bordeaux, France
1991
Bertolt Brecht, Berlin Museum Garden
1992
"Jerusalem – Three Faiths", Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
1993
Semaphore, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
My Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan
1994–1996
The Sculpture Garden of Belvoir (Kochav HaYarden)
1997
Memorial for Yitzhak Rabin, Ramat Gan Museum
2000
Abu Nabut Garden, Jaffa
EXHIBITIONS
2009
"Igael Tumarkin: 50 years of Mastery," Sissman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
2007
"Out, Still & Kicking," Givon Art Gallery Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel
2000
"Israeli Contemporary Art Print Exhibition," Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1999
The Isreal Museum, Jeruselem, Israel (solo)
1994
"Igael Tumarkin," The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan (solo)
1992
"Tumarkin: Pesalim, 1957-1992," Muze'on Tel Aviv le-omanut, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
1985
"Tumarkin"Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel (solo)
1983
Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany (solo)
1980
"Igael Tumarkin, Skupturen, Zeichnungen, Grafik," Das Museum, Marl, Germany (solo)
1978
"Earth, Five Variations on a Theme: I. Tumarkin," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (solo)