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This portrait of Aharon Meskin (1898–1974) exemplifies Ben-Zvi’s cubist sculpture. Meskin was a leading actor in the Hebrew-language Habima Theater, who began his association with the troupe while it…
Contributor:
Ze’ev Ben-Zvi
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1938
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Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass. (Its glass panels were removed a few years…
Contributor:
Yigael Tumarkin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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Nimrod provoked controversy when it was first presented to the public. The biblical Nimrod was a hunter, but he was also associated with rebellion, especially in talmudic literature, and he appears…
Contributor:
Itzhak Danziger
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1939
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Ira Jan created this hagiographical depiction of her lover Chaim Nahman Bialik being anointed by angels as a child shortly before she was deported by Ottoman authorities to Egypt. Her romantic…
Contributor:
Ira Jan
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1914