Description
Igael Tumarkin: * 1933, Dresden † 2021, Tel Aviv
Untitled
Execution: Drawing, ink/black paper
Date: 1965
Dimensions: 33 x 33 cm
Signature: signed and dated at the bottom
Provenance: original work from private collection
Yigael Tumarkin was a sculptor, photographer and land art artist living in Israel.
He studied sculpture with the artist Rudy Lehmann. From 1955 to 1957 he worked as an assistant to the stage designer Karl von Appen at the Berliner Ensemble.
Tumarkin’s works can be seen in many important museums, including the Haifa Museum of Modern Art, the Haifa Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the Walraf-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 monumental outdoor works can be seen in Israel, the USA, the Sinai Peninsula and Nuremberg, Germany, among other places. In 2004, he was awarded the Israel Prize.
