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19-524: (Redirected from FIMA ) [REDACTED] Look up fima in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fima or FIMA may refer to: Fima (artist) (1914–2005), Israeli artist Federation of Islamic Medical Associations Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications See also [ edit ] FEMA (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

38-455: A comprehensive collection of classical and contemporary art, especially Israeli art , a sculpture garden and a youth wing. Suzanne Landau , following 34 years at the Israel Museum , was appointed director and chief curator of the museum in 2012. In 2018, the museum set an all-time attendance record with 1,018,323 visitors, ranking 70th on the list of most visited art museums . In 2019,

57-673: A fine dining restaurant led by Chef Hilel Tavakuli. In May 2023, following an extensive renovation of the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, it was reopened as the Eyal Ofer Pavilion, in honour of its contemporary benefactor , with the first retrospective of the works of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti in Israel exhibited on all four levels. The renovation was led by architect Amnon Rechter, whose father, Israel Prize laureate architect Yaakov Rechter , built

76-786: A giant two-panel mural especially for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. It hangs in the entrance foyer. The Collection includes several masterpieces, among them the painting Friedericke Maria Beer , 1916 by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and Untitled Improvisation V , 1914, by the Russian master Wassily Kandinsky . The Peggy Guggenheim Collection , donated in 1950, includes 36 works by Abstract and Surrealist artists, including works of Jackson Pollock , William Baziotes , and Richard Pousette-Dart , and Surrealists works by Yves Tanguy , Roberto Matta , and André Masson . Sculptures are displayed in

95-532: A large white émigré community. Roeytenberg was the son of Russian-Jewish parents. His father was an engineer who worked on the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway . Roeytenberg studied in a Russian high school in Harbin, where he learned Chinese as well. After graduating secondary school in 1933, he moved to Shanghai , where he studied architecture while taking painting classes at night. During

114-459: A month before his death. He died in Jerusalem on 16 October 2005. Tel Aviv Museum The Tel Aviv Museum of Art was established in 1932 in a building at 16 Rothschild Boulevard that was the former home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff , who had donated the property for a museum in memory of his wife, Zina, following her death in 1930. On 14 May 1948, 250 delegates quietly gathered at

133-541: A new building began in 1963 when the museum's collections of modern and contemporary art began to outgrow the premises. Construction commenced in 1966 but stopped for two years due to shortage of funds, before moving to its current location in 1971. Another wing was added in 1999 and the Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden was established. The museum also contains "The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center", opened in 1988. The museum houses

152-685: A sold-out exhibition at the Rina gallery in Jerusalem. In 1961, Roeytenberg moved to Paris, where he developed an association with the Jacques Massol gallery. He was there until 2002, exhibiting works in Paris, Israel, and elsewhere. His works were displayed at the Bineth gallery, and he took part in the 1964 Art Israel show at the New York Museum of Modern Art . In 1966, after the death of his wife, Roeytenberg spent

171-736: A year in Finland . There, he met his second wife. Roeytenberg exhibited at the Israel Museum , Jerusalem in 1970, the Jewish Museum in New York in 1972, the Barbican Centre in London in 1990, and had a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum in 1976. In 2002, Roeytenberg returned to live in Israel. He travelled to Hong Kong in 2004 when his work was being exhibited there. He continued to paint until

190-552: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fima (artist) Fima (born Efraim Roeytenberg ) (1914 – 2005) was an Israeli artist born in China . He spent most of his career in France. Ephraim (Yafim) Roeytenberg, known as "Fima" or "Pima", was born 22 December 1914 and grew up in Harbin , China. Harbin was a Russian-Chinese city with

209-533: The 7 October attacks and subsequent incidents related to the Israel-Hamas War , the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) and the 2024 Iran–Israel conflict , the museum removed several items on its collection from display and stored them for safekeeping in a secured basement. It also moved other exhibitions to a protected space on the facility's lower levels. The Museum's collection represents some of

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228-570: The Blue and Neo-Classical period to his Late Period, Cubist paintings by Albert Gleizes , Jean Metzinger , several sculptures by Jacques Lipchitz , and Surrealists works of Joan Miró . One section of the Museum displays the history of Israeli art and its origins among local artists in the pre-state Zionist community of the early twentieth century. In 1989, the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein created

247-863: The 1940s, he worked in Shanghai painting set designs for shows. He attended and later taught at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts in Shanghai. In 1947, he had a solo exhibition at the Jewish Recreation Club in Shanghai. He also displayed his work in group shows. Roeytenberg immigrated to Israel in February 1949 and settled in Jerusalem . During the 1950s, he made contacts with contemporary artists in Israel and explored new ways of painting. In 1954, Roeytenberg traveled to Italy and in 1956 to Paris . In 1960, he had

266-540: The entrance plaza and in an internal sculpture garden. In addition to a permanent collection, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions of individual artists' work and group shows curated around a common theme. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art includes The Paulson Family Foundation Building, its main structure on Shaul Hamelech Boulevard; the Herta and Paul Amir Building; and the Eyal Ofer Pavilion. Marking its 90th anniversary,

285-557: The leading artists of the first half of the 20th century and many of the major movements of modern art in this period: Fauvism , German Expressionism , Cubism , Futurism , Russian Constructivism , the De Stijl movement and Surrealism , French art, from the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists to the School of Paris including works of Chaïm Soutine , key works by Pablo Picasso from

304-849: The museum for the historic signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence . In 1971, the building became Independence Hall when the museum relocated to 27 Shaul Hamelech Boulevard. Curator Nehama Guralnik began working at the museum in 1971, when French was the common language among staff, including the director, administrators and the curators, and catalogues were printed in French and in Hebrew, with English introduced later that decade. Guralnik curated more than 40 exhibitions during her 34-year tenure as international art curator. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art opened in 1959. Planning for

323-426: The museum set a new attendance record, ranking 49th with 1,322,439 visitors. In 2022, it again ranked 49th, with 1,070,714 visitors. In 2023, it was ranked 48th on The Art Magazine ' s list of the 100 most popular museums in the world. On 23 March 2023, Tel Aviv Museum of Art was partially closed, in participation with Israel's "day of paralysis" during the 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests . Following

342-509: The museum's main building was refurbished and renamed The Paulson Family Foundation Building in 2021, in honour of its benefactors. In November 2011, the Herta and Paul Amir Building on the western side of the museum opened. It houses an Israeli Architecture Archive, and a new section of Photography and Visual arts . The new building was designed by architect Preston Scott Cohen . The new wing houses 18,500 square feet of gallery space over five floors. The Amir building also contains Pastel,

361-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fima . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fima&oldid=1219179060 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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