What is Igael Tumarkin?
{{Infobox artist | name = Igael Tumarkin | image = Tumarkin 1991 square.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = Igael Tumarkin (1999) | birth_name = Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg | birth_date = 23 October 1933 | birth_place = [[Dresden]], [[Free State of Saxony|Saxony]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] | death_date = 12 August 2021 (aged 87) | death_place = | nationality = Israeli | spouse = Naomi<br>Naamah | children = 3 | known_for = Sculpture | training = Studied with Rudi Lehmann, [[Ein Hod]] | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = * 1985 [[Dizengoff Prize]] * 2004 [[Israel Prize]] | elected = | website = }}[[File:Igael Tumarkin.jpg|thumb|Igael Tumarkin, 1980]] '''Igael Tumarkin''' ([[Hebrew]]: יגאל תומרקין; 23 October 1933 – 12 August 2021) was an Israeli painter and sculptor.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rOjpAAAAMAAJ&q=tumarkin+dresden |title=Artists of Israel, 1920-1980: the Jewish Museum/New York, February 19-May 17, 1981 |publisher=Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.) |author=Susan Tumarkin Goodman |year=1981 |isbn=9780814316863 |access-date=27 August 2011}}</ref> Tumarkin's best known works are the [[Holocaust and Revival]] memorial in [[Rabin Square]], [[Tel Aviv]] and his sculptures honoring dead soldiers in the [[Negev]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5U-Dk-5p0mIC&q=tumarkin+rabin+square&pg=PA186 |title=Israel and the Post-Zionists: a nation at risk |author= Shlomo Sharan|year=2003 |isbn=9781903900529 |access-date=27 August 2011}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tumarkin, Igael}} [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:German sculptors]] [[Category:German painters]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] [[Category:Israeli sculptors]] [[Category:Israeli painters]] [[Category:People from Dresden]] {{bio-stub}}