FEIGIN, DOV

FEIGIN, DOV (1907–2000), Israel sculptor. Feigin was born in Lugansk, Russia, and immigrated to Palestine in 1927. He studied in Paris between 1933 and 1937, and in 1947–48 was one of the founders of the New Horizons Group which tried to introduce modernism to Israel art. In 1962, he created a monumental sculpture in stone at Miẓpeh Ramon in the Negev. Before 1950, Feigin worked in stone and concrete, and produced massive human forms, in post-cubist style. An example is the monument at Reḥovot In Memory of Our Warriors, a relief characterized by its sharply defined contours. His later work became abstract and he composed linear forms in bronze, copper, and iron. Feigin won several prizes: in 1945–46 the Dizengoff prize, in 1953 the Haifa Municipality prize, and in 1985 the Sandberg prize from the Israel Museum. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: B. Tammuz and M. Wykes-Joyce, Art in Israel (1966), 152–3; H. Gamzu, Painting and Sculpture in Israel (1951), 113–5. (Yona Fischer)