David Ascalon

David Ascalon ( born March 8, 1945 in Tel Aviv, Palestine ); is an American- Israeli artist and sculptor. He is the father of the industrial designer Brad Ascalon.

Life

As a child, David Ascalon received instruction in art and sculpture from his father, the Hungarian-born sculptor and product designer Maurice Ascalon ( 1913-2003 ). As a teenager, he moved with his family to the United States, as the father of view was his children would receive a better education here. At California State University Ascalon began to study art and design, and then to make his degree in architecture and interior design at Pratt Institute in New York. During the 70 years he has worked as an interior designer for various companies in New York and for the Israeli architect Arieh Elhanani in Tel Aviv. Looking for more direct means of artistic expression for the architecture, he experimented on metal sculptures and created several abstract compositions with the welding torch.

1977 drew Ascalon then to Philadelphia, to found there together with his father by Ascalon Studios. Ascalon now began to focus on site-specific art in public places and churches. In the years since its founding, the studio hundreds of projects, ranging from giant sculptures and liturgical church window glass to mosaic walls throughout North America created. Many of his works adorn synagogues and other prayer houses. Among the sculptures are also quite a number of Holocaust monuments that pay tribute to the victims of the atrocities pay (even in his own family ).

David Scalon has been awarded many international design committee, including the Forum for Religion, Art and Architecture of the American Institute of Architects ( AIA). Ascalon is also president of the American Guild of Jewish Art.

His brother Adir Ascalon († 2003) worked together with the famous Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros.