Arieh Lubin ( he, אריה לובין, 1897–1980) was an Israeli artist.
Biography
Arieh (Leo) Lubin began to study art in Chicago in 1915, but left to join the
Jewish Brigade
The Jewish Infantry Brigade Group, more commonly known as the Jewish Brigade Group or Jewish Brigade, was a military formation of the British Army in the World War II, Second World War. It was formed in late 1944 and was recruited among Yishuv, Y ...
in
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. After the war, he studied in Europe and returned to Israel in 1922.
Artistic style
Lubin's work reflects contemporary trends of the 1920s. His main influences were
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically d ...
,
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
, and
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...
. He absorbed the
Cubism of
Derain and the
Purism
Purism, referring to the arts, was a movement that took place between 1918 and 1925 that influenced French painting and architecture. Purism was led by Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier). Ozenfant and Le Corbusier f ...
of
Le Corbusier and
Ozenfant by reading "L'Esprit Nouveau", a journal he ordered from Paris.
Lubin was one of the first Israeli artists to settle in the artists quarter of
Safed.
Lubin died in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...
in 1980. He is buried in
Trumpeldor Cemetery
Trumpeldor Cemetery ( he, בית הקברות טרומפלדור), often referred to as the "Old Cemetery," is a historic cemetery on Trumpeldor Street in Tel Aviv, Israel. The cemetery covers 10.6 acres, and contains approximately 5,000 graves. ...
.
Awards and recognition
* 1922 John Quincy Adams Prize for Study Abroad
* 1956 Ramat Gan Panorama Prize
* 1957 Olympic Committee Prize for Sports Subjects
* 1957 Dizengoff Prize
* 1978 Worthy of Tel Aviv
See also
*
Visual arts in Israel
Visual arts in Israel refers to plastic art created first in the region of Palestine, from the later part of the 19th century until 1948 and subsequently in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories by Israeli artists. Visual art in Israel ...
References
External links
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Arieh Lubinon Artfact.com
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1897 births
1980 deaths
20th-century Israeli painters
Burials at Trumpeldor Cemetery
American emigrants to Israel