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Arieh (Leo) Lubin, Israeli, 1897-1980, born in the United States

Arieh Lubin was born in Chicago to a family of Zionist immigrants from Russia. In 1913, he was sent by his family to Palestine, where he studied at Gymnasia Herzliya. When World War I broke out, he returned to the United States and began to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1917, he volunteered for the Jewish Brigades, which took him back to Palestine. After the war, he returned to his studies in Chicago, where he was exposed for the first time to Cubism. After graduation, he traveled around Europe and registered for a sculpture class under Antoine Bourdelle at Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.

In 1923, Lubin returned to Palestine. He joined the modern art community and took part in the Hebrew Artists Society shows at David's Tower (1924, 1926) and the Modern Artists Exhibition at the Ohel Theater (1926-1928). In 1936, he moved to Tel Binyamin (today Ramat Gan), and then to Petah Tikva. In 1947, he had his first solo exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum. He showed his work at the Israeli pavilion of the Venice Bienale (1948, 1950, 1960). In the 1950s, Lubin was one of the first artists to settle in the artists' quarter of Safed. In 1969, a retrospective of his work was mounted at Beit Zvi in Ramat Gan.

Like other modern artists, Lubin painted Eretz Yisrael landscapes. In the 1920s, however, his work shows Cubist influence and he seems to have been especially influenced by the Purism of Le Corbusier, who sought to capture the purity of geometric form.

Education

1913-1914, Gymnasia Herzliya, Tel Aviv
1915-1917 Chicago Institute of Art, United States
1922-1923 Chicago Institute of Art, United States
1923 sculpture under Bourdelle, Paris, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris

Awards And Prizes

1922 John Quincy Adams Prize for Study Abroad, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
1956 Ramat Gan Panorama Prize, Ramat Gan Municipality
1957 Israel Olympic Committee Prize
1978 Worthy Citizen of Tel Aviv Award, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
1957 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa