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Jochanan Ben Yaakov, Israeli, born in Germany, 1913-2003.

Jochanan Ben Yaakov was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1913. In his youth he joined the Jewish-Socialist youth movement Wandervogel. In 1933 he made Aliyah to the Land of Israel and settled in Kibbutz Hazorea. During his first years on the kibbutz he worked guarding the kibbutz grounds. In 1943 he studied as a non-matriculated student at “The New Bezalel.” His early work, from the years he lived in Germany, have not been preserved. After he made Aliyah, he created paintings and figurative prints. In addition, he began to create abstract sculpture, primarily in wood, using assemblage technique. These sculptures describe, in abstract form, architectural images, landscape images, etc. In addition he created a number of public sculptures.

Education

1943 Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, with Mordechai Ardon and Ascheim.

Awards And Prizes

1950 Sam Dubiner Prize
1951 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
1968 Prize for Sculpture from the Munich Municipality, Germany
1980 Writers' Association Prize

Environmental Sculptures

1958 Relief, The Wilfrid House, The Sower.
1978 relief at the Technion, Haifa.
1979 Relief, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning, Chicago, Illinois, USA