Ibrahim Hazimeh

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Ibrahim Hazimeh (2003)

Ibrahim Hazimeh (* 1933 in Akko ) is a Palestinian artist who lives in Germany .

Offices and functions

Hazimeh is President of the Palestinian National Committee for Fine Arts at AIAP / UNESCO. He is also a board member and spokesman for the Palestinian Artists Association in Europe.

biography

In 1948 Ibrahim Hazimeh and his parents were first expelled to Lebanon and then to Latakia in Syria . In Latakia , he worked from 1952 as an art teacher and accountant. He did self-study and then distance-learning at the Paris Art Institute. In 1957 he received the Cairo Salon Prize in Cairo and the Exhibition Prize in Damascus for his work . In 1960 he continued his art studies in Leipzig at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, where he was a master class student from 1963 to 1967, and graduated in 1964 with honors from Professor Bernhard Heisig .

United Buddy Bear for Palestine , designed by Ibrahim Hazimeh, here: Exhibition in Warsaw 2008

He then stayed in Beirut from 1968 . From 1974 he worked as an art therapist in West Berlin . He pursued this work until 1993. At the 10th Biennale in 1987 he won the Golden Sail Prize in Kuwait . A draft of a stamp issue of Palestine with the motif of his painting Jerusalem after Rain followed in 1998 . Five more drafts of the Palestine stamp issue with the motifs of his paintings in collaboration with the Bundesdruckerei Berlin followed. At the Grand Prix 2002 de l'Exposition WIPA , Palestine achieved 3rd place with its "Maria with the Child" stamp pad . In 2004 the Missio art calendar "Palestine 2005" was issued. In 2005, the portrait he painted by Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski was handed over to the SPD headquarters in Berlin. In 2007 he designed the United Buddy Bears of Palestine, which was exhibited for the first time in April / May in Cairo and in August in Jerusalem among many artists from 132 countries.

Working in public space

  • Buddy Bear for Palestine, shown publicly in: 2007 Cairo | 2007 Jerusalem | 2008 Warsaw | 2008 Stuttgart | 2008 Pyongyang | 2009 Buenos Aires | 2009 Montevideo | 2009 Berlin | 2010 Astana | 2010 Helsinki | 2011 Sofia | 2011 Berlin | 2011 Kuala Lumpur | 2012 New Delhi | 2012 St. Petersburg | 2012 Paris | 2014 Rio de Janeiro | 2015 Havana | 2015 Santiago de Chile |

References and comments

  1. ↑ United Buddy Bears: The Art of Tolerance , ed. by Eva and Klaus Herlitz , Berlin 2009, pp. 264–265
  2. ^ United Buddy Bears in New Delhi
  3. ↑ Today - News from ZDF on October 12, 2012, 7 p.m. ( Memento from March 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ cf. continuous documentation under: Buddy Bears . buddy-baer.com. Retrieved April 25, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Hazimeh, Ibrahim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Akko