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 to Bilha and Ben-Zion Kadishman. His father died when he was 15 years old. He left school to help his mother and provide for the family.

From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design under Aharon Avni in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem.

In 1950, Kadishman joined the Nahal infantry brigade In 1959-1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro and Reg Butler.

Art career

In the 1960s, Kadishman's sculptures were Minimalist in style, and so designed as to appear to defy gravity. This was achieved either through careful balance and construction, as in Suspense (1966), or by using glass and metal so that the metal appeared unsupported, as in Segments (1968). The glass allowed the environment to be part of the work.

The first major appearance of sheep in his work was at the 1978 Venice Biennale, where Kadishman presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art. In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different from the next. These instantly recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic "trademark".

Awards and recognition 1960 the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship. 1981 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum Prize of the Jury 1981 Norwegian International Print Biennale, Fredrikstad. 1995 the Israel Prize, for sculpture. 2002 the Honorary Fellowship Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Sculptures and public installations

United States

New York 'Suspended', 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville 'Eight Positive Trees', 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville 'Sheep', 1979, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY 'Untitled', 1981, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY 'Shepherdess', 1984, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY 'The Sacrifice of Isaac', 1985, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Bronx, NY

Oklahoma 'The Sacrifice of Isaac', 1985, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman 'Negative Tree', 2001, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa 'Tree #1 (Positive)', 2001, Quartz Mountain Arts & Conference Center, Lone Wolf 'Tree #2 (Negative)', 2001, Quartz Mountain Arts & Conference Center, Lone Wolf

Pennsylvania 'Three Discs', 1967, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove 'The Sacrifice of Isaac', 1986, Lehigh University, Bethlehem

Texas 'Segments', 1968, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas 'The Forest', 1970, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas 'Om', 1969, University of Houston, Houston

Canada

'Three Discs', 1967, High Park, Toronto

Costa Rica MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José

Italy Morning Light (sheep+ sheep), Fattoria di Celle- Collezione Gori, Pistoia, Italy

Germany

'Falling Leaves', Jewish Museum, Berlin 'Pieta', Dominikanerkloster, Braunschweig

Israel 1957 "The Dog", Artist Private Collection | 2015 China, Sculptor Maty Grunberg, recreating Kadishman "The Dog 1957" in granite stone, under M. Kadishman's instruction 1960 Tension, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1964 Uprise, a heavy steel sculpture near the Theatre and Performing Arts Center stage. Tel Aviv 1966 In Suspense, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1967 In Suspense, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 1967-74 The Tree Circles, Tel Aviv 1975 In Suspense, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv 1975 In Suspense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo 1977 Circles, The Hebrew University, Har Hatsofim, Jerusalem 1979 Continuum, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 1982-1985 Akedat Issac, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv 1984 - Hill of the Sheep, The Tefen Open Museum of Israeli Art, Galilee 1985 Akedat Issac, University of Tel, Tel Aviv-Yafo 1985, Trees Israel Museum Billy Rose Sculpture Art Garden, Jerusalem, Israel 1989 Birth, The Open Museum of Israeli Art, Galilee 1990 Trees, Rehavia, Jerusalem 1990 Birth, near the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Herzliya 1994 Motherland, Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo 1995 The Family Plaza, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Veshem, Jerusalem 1998 Scream, Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo 2004 Portrait of Shimon Finkel on the facade of Tel Aviv City Hall 2006 Memorial monument for the Etzel, Haganah and Lehi underground organizations, Ramat Gan

Japan 'Prometheus', 1986–87, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

The Netherlands 'Dream', 1993, Buddingh'plein, Dordrecht ‘Sacrifice of Isaac’, Emerparklaan, Breda.

United Kingdom Tate Britain, London (England) Hollyfield, Harlow (England)

Private collections (selection) Herta & Paul Amir, Los Angeles, USA Lizi & Zeev Aram, London, UK Frank Cohen, London, UK Muriel & Phil Berman, Allentown, USA Irma & Norman Braman, Miami, USA Gabi & Ami Brown, Tel Aviv Nicki & Peter De Swan, Amsterdam, Holland Pina & Giuliano Gori, Villa Celle, Pistoia, Italy Rachel & Dov Gottesman, Te- Aviv, Israel Joseph Hackmey, Tel Aviv, Israel Ziva & Yoram Lazar, Nairobi, Kenya Rita & Simon Levit, Tulsa, USA Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany Nils Seethaler, Berlin, Germany Herbert Gerisch, Neumünster, Germany Romey & Adam Nan, Tel Aviv, Israel Patsy & Ray Nasher, Dallas, USA Sue Rowan Pittman, Bushnami Sculpture Garden, Burton, Texas, USA Teddy Reitman, London, England Sharon & Fred Stein, New York, USA Ellen & Jerome Stern, New York, USA Vera Silvia & Arturo Schwarz, Italy

Other works 'Horse' 'Motherland' 'Child and Horse' 'Kissing Birds' 'Homage to Young Couples' 'Homage to Barnett Newman' 'The Flock' 'Cracked Earth'