The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture is awarded annually by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality since 1934.
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.
Recipients The following is a table of Dizengoff Prize laureates in their respective art form:
Year Painting Sculpture1934Yitzhak Frenkel 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 Trude Chaim 1939 Pinchas Litvinovsky, Yishai Kulbiansky, Arieh Navon, Yitzhak Frenkel 1940 Arie Orland, Miron Sima, Mordechai Levanon, Yitzhak Frenkel 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, 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), Ève Goldfarb-Borgese 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 Petel2007Dganit 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
See also
Art in Tel Aviv
References