Dov Feigin

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Ladderes (1957), Tel Aviv University Campus

Dov Feigin ( Hebrew דב פייגין; * 1907 in Lugansk , Russian Empire ; † 2000 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was an Israeli sculptor born in Ukraine .

life and work

Feigin's father was a Mosaic believer and a tailor. Feigin attended a public school, possibly a Talmud school. In 1920 the Feigin family moved to Gomel , where he joined the " Hashomer Hatzair ", a Zionist movement. He was arrested and given a three-year prison term. After his release in 1927 , he immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine , where he became one of the pioneers of Kibbutz Afikim .

In 1933 Feigin went to Paris , where he was accepted at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and began studying sculpture . His works during this period were mostly traditional and made of natural stone . In 1937 Feigin returned to Tel-Aviv . In 1948 he joined a group of artists called "Ofakim Hadasim" (German: "New Horizon") , which was founded by Yosef Zarizky in the same year . This group was avowedly inspired by the new art movements in Europe.

From 1956 onwards Feigin's work changed significantly to Abstract Art under the influence of the New Horizon Movement and he began to use metal in the execution of his works. His works Bird , Alomot and Ladderes visualize a clearly rectangular abstract structure. Similar to the New Horizon artist Itzhak Danziger , his work was also influenced by the cultural-political movement of the Young Hebrews . In 1948 and 1962 he took part in the Venice Biennale and in 1966 he created a relief in the Yad Kennedy in Jerusalem , a monument to John F. Kennedy .

One of his most famous sculptures , Animal (German: Tier) from 1958, which was restored in 2006, is permanently in the sculpture park of the Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden in Tel Aviv.

Photo gallery

  • Dov Feigin in 1956

  • Animal (1958/2006), Tel Aviv Museum of Art

  • Yad Kennedy Memorial, Jerusalem

  • Feigin, One Harod

  • Tabernacle in the field , Tel Aviv

literature

Web links

Commons : Dov Feigin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • new.jpost.com : Gil Goldfine: Dov Feigin: cutting it thin (English)
personal data
SURNAME Feigin, Dov
ALTERNATIVE NAMES דב פייגין (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Israeli sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugansk , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 2000
Place of death Jerusalem , Israel