Bidspirit auction | Lubin Aryeh (1897-1980), 3 original

Lubin Aryeh (1897-1980), 3 original hand signed lithographs. all Artist proof - Aryeh Lubin was born in 1897 in Chicago, United States, to a family of Zionist immigrants from Russia. In 1913 he was sent by his family to Eretz Israel, where he began studying at the Herzliya Gymnasium. With the outbreak of World War I, Lubin returned to the United States and began studying at the school at the Art Institute in Chicago. In 1917 he volunteered for the Jewish Legion. In this framework he returned to Eretz Israel and returned to his studies in Chicago at the end of the war. At that time he was exposed for the first time to Cubist painting. After completing his studies, Lubin set out on a tour of Europe. Where he enrolled in a sculpture course led by Bordel at the Grand Chumier Art Academy in Paris.  In 1923 Lubin immigrated to Eretz Israel a second time. Upon his arrival, he became part of the modern art community and exhibited in the exhibition of the Hebrew Artists Association at the Tower of David (1924-1926) and the Modern Artists Exhibition in the tent hut (1926-1928). In 1936 he moved to Tel Binyamin (now Ramat Gan) and later to Petah Tikva. In 1947, the first solo exhibition of his works was held at the Tel Aviv Museum. Presented at the Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1948, 1950, 1960). Lubin was one of the first artists in the Artists' Colony in Safed in the 1950s. In 1969, a retrospective of his works was held at Beit Zvi in ​​Ramat Gan. Like many other modern artists, Lubin described the landscapes of Israel. However, Lubin's work of the 1920s uses the influences of Cubism and especially the Purism of Le Corbusier, which sought to describe shapes in nature distinctly, and not in relation to the accidental way of seeing. Studies 1913-1914 Gymnasia Herzliya, Tel Aviv 1917-1915 Institute of Art, Chicago, United States 1922-199 The Art Institute, Chicago, United States 1923 Sculpture at Bordel, the Grand Chumier Art Academy, Paris, France Awards 1922 John Adams Prize for Excellence, Institute of Art, Chicago, United States 1956 ”Nof Ramat Gan” Prize, Ramat Gan Municipality 1957 Prize for sports, Israel Olympic Committee 1978 Yakir Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality 1957 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality