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The Holocaust and Revival Monument
Yigael Tumarkin
1975
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Israeli artist Yigael Tumarkin was born in Dresden and immigrated to Palestine with his family as an infant. In the early 1950s, he returned to Germany, where he designed sets for Bertolt Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble as well as other theater companies. Tumarkin also created sculptures in iron and bronze, often incorporating parts of weapons and castings of human limbs. Sometimes called the enfant terrible of the Israeli art world, Tumarkin was known for both his provocative art and outspoken public persona. In 2004, he was awarded the Israel Prize for sculpture.
Like other sculptures created by Yigael Tumarkin, the Jordan Valley Memorial Monument, erected to commemorate hundreds of Israeli soldiers who died fighting terrorists in the years immediately…
The Meeting, Schulz’s only surviving oil painting, obliquely explores a theme he returned to many times in his writing and art, namely, sadomasochism, this time in the context of an encounter between…
Musicians on ritual stand, Ashdod, late 11th or early 10th century BCE. Music and dance played an important role in Israel and the ancient Near East in both daily life and special occasions such as…