Dizengoff Prize
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The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture is awarded annually by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality since 1937.
The following is a table of Dizengoff Prize laureates in their respective art form:
The following is a table of Dizengoff Prize laureates in their respective art form:
| Year | Painting | Sculpture |
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| 1937 | Aharon Avni, Moshe Mokady, Aire Fein, Shimshon Holzman Shimshon Holzman Shimshon Holzman was an Israeli landscape and figurative painter.-Background:Holzman was born in 1907 in Sambir, Galicia. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine from Vienna, Austria in 1922, settled in Tel Aviv, and began working as a house painter with his father... , Chaim Glicksberg |
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| 1938 | Alef Kahana, Nachum Gutman, David Hendel, Menachem Shemi, Meron Sima, Shmuel Ovadia, Arieh Allweil, Yitzhak Frenkel Yitzhak Frenkel Yitzhak Frenkel was an important Israeli painter.-Biography:... |
Trude Chaim |
| 1939 | Pinchas Litvinovsky, Yishai Kulbiansky, Arie Navon | |
| 1940 | Arie Orland, Meron Sima, Mordechai Levanon | Willy Levin |
| 1941 | Moshe Castel Moshe Castel -Biography:Moshe Elazar Castel born in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine, in 1909, to Rabbi Yehuda Castel and his wife Rachel. The family was descended from Spanish Jews from Castile who immigrated to the Holy Land after the explusion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. His father was born in Hebron. He... , Chaim Schwarz, Avigdor Steimatzky, Arie Aroch Arie Aroch Arie Aroch was an Israeli painter, recipient of The Israel Prize for Painting.- Biography :Arie Aroch, , painter, born 1908, Kharkov, Russia... , Amiram Tamari |
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| 1942 | Moshe Mokady, Joseph Zaritsky Joseph Zaritsky -Biography:Zaritsky was born in 1891 in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. He lived in Amsterdam, Paris and Brussels, but mostly he lived in Jerusalem. He studied at the art academy in Kiev before emigrating to Mandate Palestine in 1923. In 1929, he relocated from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv,... , Menachem Shemi |
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| 1943 | Yisrael Paldi | Moshe Sternschuss |
| 1944 | Yechezkel Streichman, Arie Fein, Joseph Kossonogi Joseph Kossonogi Joseph Kossonogi was an Israeli painter.-Biography:Kossonogi was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1908. After studies at the Berlin Academy of Art and advanced studies in France, Holland, Italy and Spain, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv in 1926... |
Batya Lishanski |
| 1945–1946 | Robert Bazer, Marcel Janco Marcel Janco Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect, art theorist and cultural promoter, known as the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. His first contribution came in the 1910s, when he joined up with poets Tristan Tzara and Ion Vinea... , Eliahu Sygard, Yochanan Simon, Moshe Castel Moshe Castel -Biography:Moshe Elazar Castel born in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine, in 1909, to Rabbi Yehuda Castel and his wife Rachel. The family was descended from Spanish Jews from Castile who immigrated to the Holy Land after the explusion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. His father was born in Hebron. He... , David Hendler, Esther Lurie |
Yitzhak Danziger Yitzhak Danziger Yitzhak Danziger was an Israeli sculptor. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" group.- Biography :Danziger was born in Berlin in 1916 to a Zionist family... , Dov Feigin Dov Feigin Dov Feigin was an Israeli sculptor.-Biography:Feigin was born in 1907 in Luhansk, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His father was a tailor. Feigin attended public Ukraine school as well as a Talmud Torah school. In 1920, Feigin's family moved to Gomel, where he became a member of the... |
| 1947–1948 | Aharon Avni, Aliza Bak, Yitzhak Frenkel Yitzhak Frenkel Yitzhak Frenkel was an important Israeli painter.-Biography:... , Yaakov Aizensher, Yechiel Krize, Chaya Schwartz, Peretz Rozenfeld, Zvi Schorr |
Aharon Priwer, Moshe Ziffer Moshe Ziffer -Biography:Ziffer was born in 1902 in Przemyśl, Austro-Hungary. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1919. In 1924-33, he studied sculpture in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. Stone sculptures by Ziffer are on display at the campuses of Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ziffer... , Michael Karre |
| 1950–1951 | Marcel Janco Marcel Janco Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect, art theorist and cultural promoter, known as the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. His first contribution came in the 1910s, when he joined up with poets Tristan Tzara and Ion Vinea... , Moshe Mokady, Zvi Meirovitz, Menachem Shemi, Leon Isaacov, Yochanan Ben-Yaakov, Blanca Tauber, Moshe Proppes |
Elul Kosso, Shoshana Heiman, Rudi Lehmann, Arie Resnik |
| 1953 | Shalom Sabba, Aharon Kahana , Yochanan Simon, Isidor Ascheim Isidor Ascheim Isidor Ascheim was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker-Biography:Ascheim was born in Posen , Prussia in 1891. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family and served during World War I... , Aviva Ury |
Ze'ev Ben-Zvi |
| 1954 | Aharon Giladi, Yechezkel Streichman, Joseph Kossonogi Joseph Kossonogi Joseph Kossonogi was an Israeli painter.-Biography:Kossonogi was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1908. After studies at the Berlin Academy of Art and advanced studies in France, Holland, Italy and Spain, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv in 1926... |
Yechiel Shemi |
| 1956 | Nachum Gutman, Chaim Glicksberg, Yosl Bergner Yosl Bergner Yosl Bergner is an Israeli painter.-Biography:Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw.With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation was formed in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland... , Avigdor Stematsky Avigdor Stematsky Avigdor Stematsky was a Russian-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.-Biography:Stematsky was born in 1908 in Odessa. In 1922, he immigrated to Palestine and attended the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem from 1926 to 1928. He joined the Massad group... |
Moshe Sternschuss |
| 1957 | Arieh Lubin Arieh Lubin - Biography :In 1915, Lubin studied in Chicago, but stopped studying to join the Jewish Brigade in World War I. Following the war, he studied in Europe, returning to Israel in 1922. In some of his works, Arieh Lubin reflects contemporary trends of the 1920s. His main influences were Paul Cezanne,... , Leo Kahn Leo Kahn Leo Kahn was a German-Israeli painter,-Biography:Kahn was born in 1894 in Bruchsal, Germany. He served in the German army in 1914, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe between 1919-1920 under the tutelage of Albert Hueinsen. Kahn travelled to Berlin , Holland, and France in search... , Naftali Bezem Naftali Bezem Naftali Bezem is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.-Biography:Bezem who was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent under Nazi oppression, in constant fear for the safety of his parents, who perished in Auschwitz concentration camp... |
Batya Lishanski |
| 1958 | Ephraim Lifshits, Mina Zisslman | Mordechai Pitkin |
| 1959 | Israel Paldi Israel Paldi -Awards and Prizes :* 1926 Prize for stage set for "The Fisherman's Tent," Paris* 1943 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv Jaffa, Tel Aviv... , Shraga Weil Shraga Weil -Biography:Weil was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1918 to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants. His father was a building engineer. He was sent to study with a local sculptor, and then to the Academy of Art in Prague. He produced his first graphic works during World War II, during... |
Zahara Schatz Zahara Schatz Zahara Schatz , was an Israeli fine and decorative artist and daughter of Boris Schatz, who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, as it is known today, in Jerusalem.-Biography:... |
| 1960 | Jean David, Elchanan Halperen, Chaya Schwartz | Aharon Priwer |
| 1961 | Yochanan Simon, Mordechai Levanon, Zvi Meirovitz, Mordechai Arieli | |
| 1962 | Yaakov Tesler, Yosef Halevi, Sima Slonim | |
| 1963 | David Meshullam | Zvi Aldouby |
| 1964 | Gershon Davidovitch, Yechezkel Kimchi, Reuven Rubin Reuven Rubin Reuven Rubin was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.-Biography:Rubin Zelicovici was born in Galaţi to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art... (honorary award) |
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| 1965 | John Byle | Buky Schwartz Buky Schwartz -Biography:Schwartz was born in Jerusalem in 1932. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture with Yitzhak Danziger at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. In 1959, he moved to London, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art from 1959 to 1962. After returning to Israel in... |
| 1966 | Tzila Naman, Kalman Hak | Rudi Lehmann, Pinchas Eshet |
| 1967 | Pinchas Abramovitz, Michael Gross Michael Gross (artist) Michael Gross was an Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual artist.-Biography:Gross was born in Tiberias in British-administered Palestine in 1920. In 1939-1940, he studied at the Teachers’ Training College in Jerusalem. From 1943 to 1945, he studied architecture at Technion – Israel Institute... |
Shoshana Heiman |
| 1969 | Yechezkel Streichman, Kalman Hak | Robert Bazer |
| 1976 | Osias Hofstatter, Hava Mehutan, Oded Feingersh | Yaakov Loutchansky (honorary award) |
| 1978 | Eliahu Gat Eliahu Gat -Biography:Eliahu Gat was born in 1919 in the small town of Dokshitz in Belarus, to a Zionist family. In 1926, the family resettled in Poland, where Gat attended a Polish gymnasium. In 1937, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and studied architecture at the Technion in Haifa. From 1939 to 1942, he... , Raffi Lavie Raffi Lavie Raffi Lavie was an Israeli artist, art educator and music/art critic.-Biography:Lavi was born in Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine. He began teaching at the Midrasha Art Academy in 1966. In the same year he was also a founder of the group Ten Plus. Lavie's work is a cross between graffiti and abstract... |
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| 1982 | Avigdor Luisada, Lea Nikel Lea Nikel -Biography :Lea Nikel was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine in 1918. Her family immigrated to British-administered Palestine in 1920. She had one sister, Sara , who was born in 1926. She began studying with painter Chaim Gliksberg in Tel Aviv in 1935, later studying with Yechezkel Streichman and Avigdor... |
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| 1985 | Uri Lifschitz | Yigal Tumarkin Yigal Tumarkin Yigal Tumarkin is an Israeli painter and sculptor. He is also known as Igael Tumarkin.-Biography:... |
| 1990 | Shlomo Vitkin | Menashe Kadishman Menashe Kadishman Menashe Kadishman is an Israeli sculptor and painter.-Biography:From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem.In 1959, he moved to London, where... |
| 1997 | Michal Naaman, Jan Rauchwerger | |
| 2001 | Michail Grobman Michail Grobman Michail Grobman is a painter and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli Architect Yasha Jacob Grobman.-Notable Footnotes:* 1939 - Born in Moscow.... , Drora Domini, Gil Shani |
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| 2005 | Pinchas Cohen Gan Pinchas Cohen Gan Pinchas Cohen Gan is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist.-Biography:Pinhas Cohen Gan was born in Meknes, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel in 1949... , Eli Petel |
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| 2009 | David Reeb |