Yigal Tumarkin

Igael Tumarkin (Hebrew יגאל תומרקין; born October 23, 1933, Dresden under the name Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg, son of Martin Hellberg and his Jewish wife Beba ) is a living in Israel sculptor and land art artist and photographer.

Tumarkin emigrated at the age of two years with his mother to Israel. From 1951 to 1954 he did his military service in the Israeli army. He studied sculpture at the artist Rudi Lehmann. From 1955 to 1957 he worked as assistant to the set designer Karl von Appen at the Berliner Ensemble. From 1966 to 1967 he traveled to Europe, USA, Africa and Australia.

Tumarkins works are exhibited in many major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in Haifa, in the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, in the Wallraf -Richartz Museum in Cologne, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Gallery in London. His large-scale outdoor works are, inter alia, in Israel, the USA, on the Sinai Peninsula and in Germany (à homage Dürer) in Nuremberg.

In 2004 him the Israel Prize.