Yankel Ginzburg Art

Mixed-media acrylic and paper collage on canvas (circa 1971) entitled "Heavenly Jerusalem" by Yankel Ginzburg. Surrealist in style, with the Wailing Wall and Old City of Jerusalem serving as the central image. There are collage elements (pieces of a musical composition cut and pasted to the canvas and painted over) along with painted Hebrew script. Important painting featured on the cover of the May 1971 issue of "Hadassah Magazine." Artist signed. Edge wear to the frame, painting itself is in fine, vintage condition. Yankel Ginzburg (b. 1945, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan Republic) Awards and Honors 1994 Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC: unveiling of sculpture collection Gondolas 1992 Art Academy, Moscow, Russia: one-man exhibition 1992 Humanitarian Honor First Class, awarded by President Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation 1991 King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA: commissioned artwork 1991 President George Bush: commissioned artwork to present to Russian President Boris Yeltsin 1985 Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution: commissioned graphics 1983 Air & Space Museum Bicentennial: official poster, commissioned by President Ronald Reagan, Washington, D.C. 1979 “Hands and Hearts,” monumental mural commission, downtown, Washington D.C 1978 Modern Masters of Israel, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Skirball Museum, Los Angeles: Works on Paper, one-man show, CA 1976 U.S. Bicentennial Celebration: commissioned to create monumental tapestry “Freedom Road,” Washington, D.C. 1975 International Art Fair, participant, Cologne, Germany 1977 Admitted to Who’s Who in American Art, and Who’s Who in America 1967 Marc Chagall Museum...

Abstract serigraph of a cat with organic forms. This serigraph is a limited edition. The artist signed titled and dated the work. It is framed in a gold frame with a white matte. Dim...

Yankel Ginzburg, Kazakastani/American (1945 - ) Genre: Modern Subject: People Medium: Lithograph Surface: Paper Dimensions w/Frame: 19 1/2" x 16" Yankel Ginzburg Yankel Ginzburg was born Yuri Zhukov in 1945 in Alma-Ata, capital of the Kazakhstan Republic near the Chinese border. His parents were both Russian Army officers. His mother was the daughter of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, chief of the general staff of the Red Army and after Stalin's death, briefly, minister of defense. His father, a lawyer, fled from Poland and became an officer in the Russian Army. Ginzburg did not even know he was a Jew until he was nine; the family escaped to Israel in 1957. He graduated from the Tel Aviv Academy of Art in 1964. At the age of nineteen, he sold his first painting. His work became increasingly more popular in Israel, and he was invited to work in the United States. He shuttles between the United States and Israel to keep up with a busy schedule and commissions and gallery showings. Ginzburg is an innovator who has developed a number of techniques, some of them three-dimensional. In 1968, Ginzburg was invited to the USA as the gues of Howard J. Samuels, who was the Under Secretary of Commerce for Lyndon Johnson. Soon after his arrival he was honored with a one man show at the Washinton Gallery of Art sponsored by the Ambassador of Israel and Lynda Bird Johnson. Mystical symbolism and religious overtones typify the artist's earlier works and offer and intriguing representation for the meshing of Gentile and Jew, Russian and Israeli. As the artist has continued to grow he has expanded to a different spectrum of motifs, modes, and techniques. One senses stylistic elements reminiscent of Miro and Kandinsky and surrealistic components. Ginzburg is deeply attached to traditional artistic virtues such as craftmanship, refinement of surface and detail, and conceptions of structure. However, the main thrust and spirit in all his works clearly and uniquely his own. In 1972, as Ginzburg's fame and popularity widened he held one-man exhibitions in Washington, DC, New York City, and Paris. The artist has been honored with the distinction of a formal invitation from the Egyptian Embassy to meet with Anwar Sadat at the Camp David Summit. He is to become the first Israeli artist to exhibit in Cairo. For three decades, Yankel Ginzburg's works have been exhibited the world over. His works have graced the walls of the Bat-Yam Museum, Marc Chagall Museum...