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David is best known for painting with encaustic, a combination of beeswax and pigment. A Jew in Germany was painted with encaustic on wood. David often uses religious iconography in his works. In 1979…
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Michael David
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
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Berman’s best-known work is her Holocaust memorial for the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island in Washington State. The twelve-foot-high bronze sculpture consists of stylized Hebrew…
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Gizel Berman
Places:
Seattle, United States of America
Date:
1981
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In the early 1980s, Eshel-Gershuni began making what she called “fetishes” or “impossible jewelry,” transferring her skills as a jewelry-maker to sculpture. She combined expensive materials like gold…
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Bianca Eshel-Gershuni
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1981
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In 1976, Safdie was appointed by Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority to design a museum at Yad Vashem devoted to the 1.5 million children who were murdered in the Holocaust…
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Moshe Safdie
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1987
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In Love Dub, small figures climb up the walls of the gallery wearing flipper-like footwear. A similar image was replicated in a tattoo, shown in a photograph as part of the installation. Katzenstein…
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Uri Katzenstein
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1995
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Natan turns to memories of her 1950s childhood on a kibbutz as inspiration for many of her works. She often uses everyday materials, such as netting and underwear, in her sculptures, as in this one…
Contributor:
Efrat Natan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2005