Creator Bio
Yigael Tumarkin
1933–2021
Israeli artist Yigael Tumarkin was born in Dresden and immigrated to Palestine with his family as an infant. In the early 1950s, he returned to Germany, where he designed sets for Bertolt Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble as well as other theater companies. Tumarkin also created sculptures in iron and bronze, often incorporating parts of weapons and castings of human limbs. Sometimes called the enfant terrible of the Israeli art world, Tumarkin was known for both his provocative art and outspoken public persona. In 2004, he was awarded the Israel Prize for sculpture.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Jordan Valley Memorial Monument
Like other sculptures created by Yigael Tumarkin, the Jordan Valley Memorial Monument, erected to commemorate hundreds of Israeli soldiers who died fighting terrorists in the years immediately…
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The Holocaust and Revival Monument
Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass. (Its glass panels were removed a few years…