The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art refers to a prize for art and design awarded at the

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, Jerusalem, with a particular focus on

Israeli art 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 Israe ...

. The prize was inaugurated in 1968 with funds from an anonymous

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–based donor. The prize is named in honor of

Willem Sandberg Jonkheer Willem Jacob Henri Berend Sandberg (24 October 1897 – 9 April 1984) known as Willem Sandberg was a Dutch typographer, museum curator, and member of the Dutch resistance during World War II. Early life and career Sandberg was born i ...

, who served between 1964 and 1968 as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Israel Museum, which opened in 1965.

History

The Sandberg Prize Foundation was established with a 75 thousand dollar fund which was earmarked for the purchase of Israeli art, and to be awarded to artists for their work. The anonymous donor requested to honor the work that Sandberg had done to promote Modern Art in Israel and with the intention of supporting the proliferation of art in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

Joseph Zaritsky Joseph (Yossef) Zaritsky ( he, יוסף זריצקי; September 1, 1891 – November 30, 1985) was one of the early promoters of modern art in the Land of Israel both during the period of the Yishuv (the body of Jewish residents in the Land of Is ...

was the first artist to be awarded the prize 2 January 1968. The panel of judges for the prize included Sandberg and

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. The prize was given to Zaritsky for the 1964 painting which paid homage to

Jan Vermeer Johannes Vermeer ( , , see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately suc ...

. In the many interviews that followed the prize, Zaritsky stressed that the artwork has an independence of its own and "it is not permissible to look at a painting and see more than what is there", he explained "an artists should not imagine beyond what he sees. What he sees is what there is. A painting is not a dream". On December 3, 1968, the Sandberg Prize was awarded to

Yigal Tumarkin Igael Tumarkin (Hebrew: יגאל תומרקין; 23 October 1933 – 12 August 2021) was an Israeli painter and sculptor. Biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Igael Tumarkin) was born in 1933 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. His fa ...

for Sculpture and

Arie Aroch Arie Aroch (in Hebrew אריה ארוך; born 1908, in Russia – October 15, 1974, in Israel) was an Israeli painter and diplomat born in Kharkiv, which was part of the Russian Empire. Aroch's work was a mixture of Pop Art and abstract art, a ...

for Painting. In addition to the prize a Sandberg Research Grant was awarded over the years from the Department of Design and Architecture at the Israel Museum.Dana Nilerman, Prize recipients for the Israeli museum, Haaretz

Notable recipients

* 1969

Yitzhak Danziger Yitzhak Danziger ( he, יצחק דנציגר; 26 June 1916 – 11 July 1977) was an Israeli sculptor. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the " Ofakim Hadashim" (New Horizons) group. Early life ...

* 1972

Moshe Kupferman Moshe Kupferman (1926-2003) was an Israeli artist. Biography Moshe Kupferman was born on 12 August 1926 in Jarosław, Poland. In 1941, he was exiled with his family to camps in the Urals and in Germany. Moshe Kupferman's work links recent lyric ...

* 1975

Anna Ticho Anna Ticho (; 27 October 1894 – 1 March 1980) was an Israeli artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills. Beit Ticho, the house in Jerusalem that she shared with her husband is now a branch of the Israel Museum and a caf ...

* 1976

Yechiel Shemi Yechiel Shemi ( he, יחיאל שמי ) (1922-2003) was an Israeli sculptor. His environmental sculptures are displayed in open spaces around the country. Biography Yechiel Stizberg (later Shemi), was born to Moshe and Esther Stizberg. When he ...

* 1977 Michael Gross * 1978

Menashe Kadishman Menashe Kadishman (Hebrew: מנשה קדישמן; August 21, 1932 – May 8, 2015) was an Israeli sculptor and painter. Biography Menashe Kadishman was born in Mandate Palestine in the family of two Zionist (supporters of the state of Israel as ...

* 1979

Pinchas Cohen Gan Pinchas Cohen Gan ( he, פנחס כהן גן) (born November 3, 1942) is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist. He was awarded the Sandberg Prize (1979), the Culture and Sport Ministry's prize for his life's work (2005), and the Israel Prize ...

* 1980 Micha Ullman * 1985

Dov Feigin Dov Feigin ( he, דב פייגין; born 1907, died 2000) was an Israeli sculptor. Biography Dov Feigin was born in 1907 in Luhansk, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His father was a tailor. Feigin attended public Ukraine school as well ...

* 1987

Motti Mizrachi Mordechai (Motti) Mizrachi ( he, מוטי מזרחי, born 1946) is an Israeli multimedia artist who creates politically engaged conceptual works that combine sculpture, video, photography, public art and performance. ''Dough'', ''Via Dolorosa' ...

* 1989

Yaacov Kaufman Yaacov Kaufman ( he, יעקב קאופמן; born 1945) is a Soviet-born Israeli industrial designer and academic. Kaufman's work has focused on lighting, furniture, and product design. He is a longtime professor at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and ...

* 1991

Israel Hershberg Israel Hershberg ( he, ישראל הרשברג; born 1948) is a figurative painter who lives and works in Jerusalem. Hershberg is the director and founder of the Jerusalem Studio School. Biography Israel Hershberg was born in 1948 in a displa ...

* 1999

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External links

Artwork by Sandberg Prize recipients from the Israel Museum Collection

"Israel Museum names winners of arts and design prizes" Haaretz, published 31.1.11
Israel Museum 1968 in art

History

Notable recipients

See also

References

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