Awards and Prizes
- 1963 First Prize for Memorial of "Choulikat"
- 1968 The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1968 First Prize for Memorial to Sailors, Haifa
- 1971 First Prize for Memorial for "Holocaust and Resurrection", Tel Aviv
- 1978 First Prize in the Bianale for Drawing, Reike
- 1984 Award from the President of the Italian Republic
- 1985 Nikel was awarded the Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture.
- 1990 Guest of the Japan Foundation
- 1992 August Rodin Prize, The International Sculpture Competition of the Open Museum, Hakone, Japan, for his sculpture Macht Arbeit Frei?
- 1997 Award of Excellence, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1998 Sussman Prize, Vienna
- 2004 Tumarkin was awarded the Israel Prize, for sculpture.
- 2005 he was voted the 161st-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
Read more about this topic: Yigal Tumarkin
Famous quotes containing the word prizes:
“She prizes not such trifles as these are.
The gifts she looks from me are packed and locked
Up in my heart, which I have given already,
But not delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)