Dov Feigin
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| Dov Feigin | |
 Dov Feigin in a pottery class (Ein Hod, 1956) |
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| Born | 1907 Luhansk, Ukraine |
| Died | 2000 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Field | Sculpture |
| Movement | Ofakim Hadasim ("New Horizons") |
| Works | Animal, 1958 |
Dov Feigin who was born in 1907 and died in 2000 was an Israeli sculptor.
[edit] Biography
Feigin was born at Luhansk in the Ukraine in 1907.[1] His father was a tailor. Feigin attended public Ukraine school as well as a Talmud Torah school. In 1920 Feigins family moved to Gomel, where he became a member of "Hashomer Hatzair", an early Zionist movement and was in 1924 arrested and imprisoned for three years. In 1927, after his release, he emigrated to the Land of Israel and was one of the founding members of the “Afikim” Kibbutz.
In 1933, Feigin was accepted to the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, France, where he studied as a traditional sculptor. His works from that period were mostly traditional statues in stone. In 1937, Feigin returned to Tel-Aviv.
In 1948, he joined an artistic group called “Ofakim Hadasim” (in he - “New Horizons”) founded by Yosef Zarizky that same year. The group was heavely inspired by the European Modern Art Movement.
[edit] His work
In 1956,[2] influenced by this group, Feigins work transformed to be more abstract . He began to use metal (iron) in constructing his sculptures. Like many of the “New Horizons” artists (like Yitzhak Danziger), his works were influenced by the Israely Canaanites movement. Works like 1956’s "Bird" and “Alomot” (he: אלומות - "stalk of wheat") or 1957’s “Ladderes” present a liniar abstract structure.
In 1948 and 1962, he attended the Venice Biennale. In 1966, he designed a relief inside Yad Kennedy, a memorial to John F. Kennedy in Jerusalem.
One of his most famous sculptures, Animal, (1958, restored in 2006) is now in the sculpture garden of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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