Dov Feigin

Dov Feigin (* 1907 in Luhansk, Ukraine, † 2000 in Jerusalem, Israel ) was an Israeli sculptor born in Ukraine.

Life and work

Feigins father was of the Jewish faith and a tailor. Feigin attended a public school, possibly a Talmudic school. 1920 the family moved Feigin to Gomel, where he called the " Hashomer Hatzair " joined a Zionist movement. He was arrested and punished with a prison sentence of three years. After his release in 1927 he immigierte in the British Mandate of Palestine, where he was one of the pioneers of the kibbutz Afikim.

1933 Feigin went to Paris, where he was admitted to the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in and began studying sculpture at. His works in this period were mostly of a traditional and natural stone. 1937 Feigin returned back to Tel - Aviv. In 1948 he joined a group of artists who are " Ofakim Hadasim ": called ( German " New Horizon " ) and was founded the same year by Yosef Zarizky. This group was avowedly inspired by the new art movements in Europe.

From 1956 on, the work of Feigin transformed under the influence of New Horizon Abstract art movement clearly and he began metal in the execution of his works to be used. His works Bird, Alomot and Ladderes visualize a clear rectangular abstract structure. Similar to the New Horizon Artist Itzhak Danziger, his work was influenced by the political-cultural movement of the Young Hebrews. 1948 and 1962 he participated in the Venice Biennial in 1966 he created a relief at Yad Kennedy in Jerusalem, a monument to John F. Kennedy.

One of his most famous sculptures, Animal ( German: animal ) from 1958, restored in 2006, is located on a permanent basis in the sculpture park of the Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden in Tel Aviv.

Photo Gallery

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

Yad Kennedy Memorial, Jerusalem

Feigin, Ein Harod

Tabernacle in the field, Tel Aviv