Animal - Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel - Silhouette Public Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

One of Dov Feigin's most famous sculptures, Animal (1958, restored in 2006), is now in the Lola Beer Ebner sculpture garden at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel. The sculpture created from a two-dimensional iron plate with overlaps to the third dimension represents a kind of unidentifiable animal. The impression is further enhanced by the red color.

Dov Feigin (born 1907, died 2000) was an Israeli sculptor.
Dov Feigin was born in 1907 in Luhansk, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1927, he emigrated to the Mandate Palestine 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” (Hebrew for - “New Horizons”) founded earlier that year by Yosef Zarizky. The group was heavily inspired by the European Modern Art Movement.

In 1956, 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 Israeli Canaanites movement. Works like 1956’s "Bird" and “Alomot” ("stalk of wheat") or 1957’s “Ladderes” present a linear abstract structure.

In 1966, he designed a relief inside Yad Kennedy, a memorial to John F. Kennedy in Jerusalem.
Source: (visit link)

Title of Piece: Animal Artist: Dov Feigin Material/Media: Painted Stainless Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): in the Lola Beer Ebner sculpture garden at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel Web link(s) for additional information: Not listed

Recent Visits/Logs:

There are no logs for this waymark yet.