Reuven Rubin

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Rubin in his Tel Aviv studio in 1946

Reuven Rubin (born November 13, 1893 in Galați as Reuven Zelicovici ; † October 13, 1974 , Tel Aviv ) was a Romanian-born, Israeli painter and the first Israeli ambassador to Romania . He was represented at numerous international exhibitions and won the Israel Prize .

Life

The studio in today's Rubin Museum

Reuven Rubin was born as Reuven Zelicovici on November 13, 1893 . The surname Rubin, which he later chose, is a variant of his first name in the American-speaking world. He was the eighth of thirteen children in a poor Hasidic Jewish family. He began drawing as a teenager. In 1912 he studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem . Just one year later he continued his studies at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and the Académie Colarossi in Paris. Between 1915 and 1920 he traveled to Italy and Switzerland and returned to Czernowitz , which was Romanian after the First World War . He illustrated Jewish and Zionist publications and worked with the illustrator and painter Arthur Kolnik . In 1921 he traveled with this for New York , where she shared in the Anderson Galleries of Alfred Stieglitz exhibited. After his return to Europe in 1922, Rubin exhibited in Bucharest and from 1923 settled in Palestine . In 1924 he had his first solo exhibitions in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, which were followed by others. In 1929 he married the American Esther Davis, with whom he had two children in 1945 and 1952. In 1933 he had his first solo exhibition in the newly opened Tel Aviv Museum . In the years up to 1945, exhibitions in London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and stage design work for the Israeli National Theater followed . 1945, he was from the Hebrew Union College , the honorary doctorate awarded. In 1947 he received his first retrospective in the Tel Aviv Museum, in 1952 he exhibited again in New York and at the Venice Biennale . In addition to other international exhibitions, he took part with six other Israeli painters in an exhibition that was adopted by leading museums in the United States. In 1964 he received the prize named after Meir Dizengoff . In 1966 and 1967, a retrospective was held at the National Museum of Israel and the Tel Aviv Museum. Rubin exhibited in Geneva and Palm Beach. In 1969 he published his autobiography. That year he designed glass windows for the lobby of the Israeli President's residence . In 1973 Reuven Rubin received the highest award of the State of Israel, the Israel Prize , for his artistic life's work. The Minister of Education and Culture, Yigal Alon, honored Rubin with it on Israel's Independence Day . Reuven Rubin died in Tel Aviv on October 13, 1974. His house became the Reuven Rubin Museum, whose activities his wife supported. She died on July 19, 2010 at the age of 99.

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Reuven Ruben exhibited in important museums around the world. The prizes awarded to him show his importance. His painting shows his love for Israel, Jewish culture and religion . Images of Tel Aviv, Galilee , people and scenes from the country emerge as well as biblical scenes. His art and life can be seen against the background of Zionism, the founding of the state of Israel and the history of the Jews in Romania . Rubin created a new artistic language by combining French influences such as the art of Henri Rousseau with elements of naive art , stylistic devices of the Russian avant-garde as well as neo-Byzantine painting techniques, and adapting them to the needs of Israel.

Diplomatic career

From 1948 to 1950 Reuven Rubin was the first Israeli ambassador to the People's Republic of Romania at the request of David Ben-Gurion . He succeeded in working in the spirit of the Aliyah , that is, Jewish immigration to Israel.

Afterlife

Reuven Rubin bequeathed the house, which he had lived in with his family from 1946, as well as his collection of paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. In 1983 it opened as the Reuven Rubin Museum. In addition to his works and the original studio, documents and sketches are shown that illustrate his life story. Two of his pictures are in the rooms of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset . In 2007 his works achieved six-figure dollar prices at Sotheby’s .

literature

  • Claus Stephani: The image of the Jew in modern painting. An introduction. / Imaginea evreului în pictura modernă. Introductiv study. Traducere in limba română de Ion Peleanu. (Bilingual edition, German-Romanian. Ediţie bilingvă, româno-germană.) Editura Hasefer: Bucureşti, 2005. ISBN 973-630-091-9

Web links

Commons : Reuven Rubin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jeannie Rosenfeld: Demand for Reuven Rubin is rising. So are the prices. In Haaretz, April 14, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2010 .
  2. ↑ artnet.com. Retrieved October 13, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved October 13, 2010 .
  4. ^ The Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2010. Retrieved October 13, 2010 .
  5. ↑ a b haGalil onLine. Retrieved October 13, 2010 .
  6. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 3, 2005: The Aesthetic Invention of the State of Israel. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  7. ^ FAZ, May 25, 2005: Enlightened statecraft. Retrieved March 4, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Milly Heyd: The Uses of Primitivism - Reuven Rubin in Palestine ; in Ezra Mendelsohn and Richard I. Cohen (Eds.): Studies in Contemporary Jewry , Volume VI ( Art and Its Uses - The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society ), Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-506188-8 , Pp. 68 and 69
  9. ↑ Homepage of the Knesset. Retrieved October 13, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Ruby, Reuven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zelicovici, Reuven (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-born, Israeli painter, Israeli ambassador to Romania
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Galați
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1974
Place of death Tel Aviv