Arieh Lubin was an Israel

Israel

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Biography

In 1915, Lubin studied in Chicago, but stopped studying to join the Jewish Brigade

Jewish Brigade

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 in World War I

World War I

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. Following the war, he studied in Europe

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, returning to Israel

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 in 1922. In some of his works, Arieh Lubin reflects contemporary trends of the 1920s. His main influences were Paul Cezanne

Paul Cézanne

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, Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

, and Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

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. The Cubism

Cubism

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 of Derain, The Purism

Purism

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 of Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...

 and Ozenfant- these and other influences he absorbed through the pages of "L'Esprit Nouveau" (the new spirit), a journal he ordered from Paris. In a country virtually isolated form the centers of culture and information, the striving of the Eretz Israel artists of the 1920s to draw on international sources was unique.

Lubin died in Tel Aviv in 1980 and was buried in the Trumpeldor cemetery

Trumpeldor cemetery

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Awards and Prizes

• 1922 John Quincy Adams Prize for Study Abroad
• 1956 Ramat Gan Panorama Prize
• 1957 Olympic Committee Prize for Sports Subjects
• 1957 Dizengoff Prize
• 1978 Worthy of Tel Aviv

External links

• Arieh Lubin on Artfact.com