Dizengoff Prize

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Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture
Awarded forpainting and sculpture
Country Israel
Presented byMunicipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo
First awarded1934;90 years ago (1934)
Website https://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Pages/ItemPage.aspx?webId=f09859c7-1a46-40e0-8968-9ae31388b659&listId=229c1b0e-698e-4b08-af1e-e769ab00a112&itemId=6   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture is awarded annually by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality since 1937.

The prize is named after Meir Dizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv. According to the Tel Aviv municipality, the purpose of the prize is to turn Tel Aviv into a centre of Israeli art and culture. [1]

Recipients

The following is a table of Dizengoff Prize laureates in their respective art form: [2]

YearPaintingSculpture
1934 Yitzhak Frenkel [3]
1937 Aharon Avni, Moshe Mokady, Arie Fein, Shimshon Holzman, Chaim Gliksberg
1938 Alef Kahana, Nachum Gutman, David Hendler, Menachem Shemi, Meron Sima, Shmuel Ovadia, Arieh Allweil, Yitzhak Frenkel [3] Trude Chaim
1939 Pinchas Litvinovsky, Yishai Kulbiansky, Arieh Navon, [4] Yitzhak Frenkel [3]
1940 Arie Orland, Miron Sima, Mordechai Levanon, Yitzhak Frenkel [3] Willy Levin, Jacob Brandenburg
1941 Moshe Castel, Chaim Schwarz, Avigdor Stematsky, Arie Aroch, Amiram Tamari
1942 Moshe Mokady, Joseph Zaritsky, Menachem Shemi
1943 Yisrael Paldi Moshe Sternschuss
1944 Yechezkel Streichman, Arie Fein, Joseph Kossonogi Batya Lishanski
1945–1946 Robert Bazer, Marcel Janco, Eliahu Sygard, Yohanan Simon, Moshe Castel, David Hendler, Esther Lurie Yitzhak Danziger, Dov Feigin
1947–1948 Aharon Avni, Aliza Bak, Yitzhak Frenkel, [3] Jakob Eisenscher, Yechiel Krize, Chaya Schwartz, Peretz Rozenfeld, Zvi Schorr Aharon Priwer, Moshe Ziffer, Michael Karre
1950–1951 Marcel Janco, 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, Yohanan Simon, Isidor Ascheim, Aviva Uri Ze'ev Ben-Zvi
1954 Aharon Giladi, Yechezkel Streichman, Joseph Kossonogi Yechiel Shemi
1956 Nachum Gutman, Chaim Glicksberg, Yosl Bergner, Avigdor Stematsky Moshe Sternschuss
1957 Arieh Lubin, Leo Kahn, Naftali Bezem Batya Lishanski
1958 Ephraim Lifshits, Mina Zisslman Mordechai Pitkin
1959 Israel Paldi, Shraga Weil Zahara Schatz
1960 Jean David, Elchanan Halperen, Chaya Schwartz Aharon Priwer
1961 Yohanan 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 (honorary award)
1965 John Byle Buky Schwartz
1966 Tzila Naman, Kalman Hak Rudi Lehmann, Pinchas Eshet
1967 Pinchas Abramovitz, Michael Gross Shoshana Heiman
1969 Yechezkel Streichman, Kalman Hak Robert Bazer
1976 Osias Hofstatter, Hava Mehutan, Oded Feingersh Yaakov Loutchansky (honorary award)
1978 Eliahu Gat, Raffi Lavie
1982 Avigdor Luisada, Lea Nikel
1985 Uri Lifschitz Yigal Tumarkin
1990 Shlomo Vitkin Menashe Kadishman
1997 Michal Na'aman, Jan Rauchwerger
2001 Michail Grobman, Drora Domini, Gil Shani
2005 Pinchas Cohen Gan, Eli Petel
2007 Dganit Berest (painting & photography) Miri Segal (multidisciplinary)
2009 David Reeb
2011 Arie Ben-Ron Nahum Tevet
2013 Joshua Borkovsky, Simcha Shirman (photography)
2015Ido Bar-El, Nurit David
2017 Uri Katzenstein
Ron Huldai awarding the Dizengoff prize, 2011 prs dyzyngvp 2011 Ayh bn rvn.jpg
Ron Huldai awarding the Dizengoff prize, 2011

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References

  1. ↑ "Dizengoff Prize" (PDF). Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
  2. ↑ "List of Dizengoff Prize laureates" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv Municipality. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-12-17.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "New art exhibit salutes work of pioneer Isaac Alexander Frenkel". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
  4. ↑ נבון, אריה; גולדנברג, אני (1993). אריה נבון: עבודות לתיאטרון (in Hebrew). המוזיאון הפתוח, גן התעשייה, תפן.
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