Dov Feigin

Dov Feigin
Dov Feigin
דב פייגין

Dov Feigin in a pottery class (Ein Hod, 1956)
Born 1907
Luhansk, Ukraine
Died 2000
Nationality Israeli
Field Sculpture
Movement Ofakim Hadasim ("New Horizons")
Works Animal, 1958
Ladderes (1957), Tel-Aviv University Campos, Israel
Animal (1958/2006), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

Dov Feigin (Hebrew: דב פייגין‎; born 1907, died 2000) was an Israeli sculptor.

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Biography

Feigin was born in 1907 in Luhansk, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.[1] 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 Socialist-Zionist movement Hashomer Hatzair. In 1924, he was arrested and imprisoned for three years. In 1927, after his release, 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.

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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