Award
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]
Year
Painting
Sculpture
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)
2015
Ido Bar-El, Nurit David
2017
Uri Katzenstein
Ron Huldai awarding the Dizengoff prize, 2011
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