Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Igael Tumarkin) was born in 1933 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theater actor and director, and a son of a pastor. His Jewish mother, Berta Gurevitch, and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, immigrated to then British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) when he was two.[2]
Tumarkin served in the Israeli Navy. After completing his military service, he studied sculpture in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel, under Rudi Lehmann. His youngest son is the actor Yon Tumarkin.[3][4] Tumarkin died at the age of 87 on 12 August 2021.[5][6]
Art career
Igael Tumarkin, 1980
Among Tumarkin's best known works are the Holocaust and Revival memorial in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv and his sculptures commemorate fallen soldiers in the Negev.[7]
Tumarkin was also an art theoretician and stage designer. In the 1950s, Tumarkin worked in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. Tumarkin created assemblages of found objects, generally with violent expressionist undertones and decidedly unlyrical color. His determination to "be different" influenced his younger Israeli colleagues. The furor generated around Tumarkin's works, such as the old pair of trousers stuck to one of his pictures, intensified the mystique surrounding him.[8][9][10] One of his controversial works is a pig wearing phylacteries (or tfilin, small boxes containing scriptures).[11]
1955 Studied with Bertolt Brecht, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin[13]
1955-57 Assistant to the designer Karl von Appen
Awards and recognition
1963 First Prize for Battle of Hulaykat Monument
1968 The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel[14]
1968 First Prize for Memorial to Sailors, Haifa
1971 First Prize for Memorial for "Holocaust and Revival", Tel Aviv[14]
1978 First Prize in the Biennale for Drawing, Reike
1984 Award from the President of the Italian Republic
1985 Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture
1990 Guest of the Japan Foundation
1992 August Rodin Prize, The International Sculpture Competition of the Open Museum, Hakone, Japan, for his sculpture of the sign at the entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp Arbeit Macht Frei.
1997 Award of Excellence, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
1968 "Big Chief", tank assemblage painted, Kiryat Shmona
1969-71 "War and Peace", steel and stone, Ramat Gan
1970 "Keystone Gate", painted steel, Jerusalem
1970 "Homage to Dürer, painted steel, Haifa
1971 "Homage to Jerusalem", Givat Shapira
1971 Sculpture Garden, 61 Weizmann Street, Holon
1971-75 "Monument to the Holocaust and Revival", corten and glass, Tel Aviv[13]
1972 "Happenings and Homage to Kepler", concrete and painted steel, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv; "Sundial Garden", concrete, Ashkelon; and "Monument to the Fallen", concrete painted white and steel, Jordan Valley[13]
1972-73 "Airport Monument", painted steel, Lod
1973 "Challenge to the Sun", Ramot Alon, Jerusalem
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