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Igael Tumarkin BIOGRAPHY
1933 Dresden, Germany - 2021. Known for: Assemblage, earthworks, historical figure images.
A sculptor and painter, he is also a theoretician and stage designer, born 1933 in Dresden, Germany. Immigrated to Israeli in 1935. In the 1950s Igael Tumarkin traveled in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and... Read full biography
A sculptor and painter, he is also a theoretician and stage designer, born 1933 in Dresden, Germany. Immigrated to Israeli in 1935. In the 1950s Igael Tumarkin traveled in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. He was deeply influenced by the metal sculpture of Julio Gonzalez. Upon his return to Israel... Read full biography
A sculptor and painter, he is also a theoretician and stage designer, born 1933 in Dresden, Germany. Immigrated to Israeli in 1935. In the 1950s Igael Tumarkin traveled in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. He was deeply influenced by the metal sculpture of Julio Gonzalez. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. In 1967, he participated in the Biennale of Sao Paulo and in 1968 in the Biennale in... Read full biography
A sculptor and painter, he is also a theoretician and stage designer, born 1933 in Dresden, Germany. Immigrated to Israeli in 1935. In the 1950s Igael Tumarkin traveled in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. He was deeply influenced by the metal sculpture of Julio Gonzalez. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. In 1967, he participated in the Biennale of Sao Paulo and in 1968 in the Biennale in Tokio. 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... Read full biography
A sculptor and painter, he is also a theoretician and stage designer, born 1933 in Dresden, Germany. Immigrated to Israeli in 1935. In the 1950s Igael Tumarkin traveled in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. He was deeply influenced by the metal sculpture of Julio Gonzalez. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. In 1967, he participated in the Biennale of Sao Paulo and in 1968 in the Biennale in Tokio. 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,... Read full biography
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A sculptor and painter, he is also a theoretician and stage designer, born 1933 in Dresden, Germany. Immigrated to Israeli in 1935. In the 1950s Igael Tumarkin traveled in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris.
He was deeply influenced by the metal sculpture of Julio Gonzalez. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. In 1967, he participated in the Biennale of Sao Paulo and in 1968 in the Biennale in Tokio.
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