Igael Tumarkin (b. 1933)

Igael Tumarkin was born in 1933 in Germany. In the late 1950s he began working in lithography and offset. In the 1970s he developed a combination of photo-etching, etched drawings and dry-point on cut plates. Meanwhile, he created many series in screenprint, which had a collage-like feature. In his works, Tumarkin expressed and reflected Israeli reality, which fluctuates between Western culture and the memory of the Holocaust. His works can be found among the all the Israeli museum collections and those of numerous museums worldwide, such as the MOMA (New York), Jewish Museum (New York), Hakone Open-Air Museum (Japan), and others.

Awards And Prizes (selection)
1968 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1985 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo
1992 August Rodin Prize, The International Sculpture Competition of the Open Museum, Hakone, Japan
1997 Award of Excellence, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
1998 Sussman Prize for Artists Depicting the Horrors of the Holocaust, Vienna, Austria
2004 The Israel Prize for Sculpture, Ministry of Education and Culture

Solo exhibitions (selection in the field of print)
1965 Graphic works, Masada Gallery of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1973 Mabat Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1974 Mabat Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1992 Tumarkin: Prints, 1961-1992, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1993 Igael Tumarkin – Prints 1992, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1993 Har El Gallery, Loft, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2010 Tumarkin at the Workshop: Etchings and Artist Books, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem

Group exhibitions (selection in the field of print)
1965 Graphic Works by Contemporary Israeli artists – New Acquisitions, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1979 The Israeli Grafotec, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1983 Contemporary Graphic-Art in Israel, Mounting Exhibition, USA
1983 Etchings by Sculptures, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1986 Landscape and Nature: Contemporary Israeli Prints from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, High Court of Australia, Canberra, Australia
1987 Processes in Etching and Engraving, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1994 Prints, The Art-Workshop Gallery, Yavne
1994 Special Reserve, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1994 The Printer’s Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1995 Sculptors’ Prints, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2001 Dyo-Eikon: Portrait Exhibition, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2002 Running Words: On Writing in Prints, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2002 Running Words: On Writing in Prints, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2002 35 Prints – 35 Years of Occupation, Hagar Art Gallery, Jaffa
2003 35 Prints – 35 Years of Occupation, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2003 In Memory – Hanoch Levin, The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2005 Working Proofs, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2006 Three exhibitions of Etching works, The Negev Museum of Art, Be’er Sheva
2007 On Paper: Prints by Israeli Artists, Ashdod Art Museum
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2014 Workshop Myth: Four Decades. Body, Place, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 No pasarán: Eighty years of the Spanish Civil War, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem