Ibrahim Hazimeh (24 April 1933 – 25 September 2023) was a Palestinian-born visual artist, designer, and educator. He was known for painting and sculpture. In his early life he was a
refugee
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution. and lived in Lebanon and Syria.
Career
In 1948, Hazimeh and his family suffered expulsion from Mandatory Palestine and they fled by boat to
Latakia
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, Syria as refugees.
In
Latakia
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, he initially worked on the docks to support his family, before eventually becoming an art teacher and a bookkeeper.
Hazimeh completed a correspondence course with the Ecole de Dessin in
Paris.
In 1960, Hazimeh was awarded a scholarship to study at the
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) in
Leipzig, Germany.
In 1964, he graduated with distinction, with professor
Bernhard Heisig as his mentor.
Since 1974, he has lived in Berlin.
He is the President of the Palestinian National Committee at the AIAP /
UNESCO as well as a board member and spokesperson of the Palestinian Artists Association in Europe.
In 2007, he designed the
United Buddy Bear for
Palestine
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, which has been presented at the exhibitions 2007 in
Cairo,
Jerusalem and 2008 in
Warsaw,
Stuttgart
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and
Pyongyang so far. 2014 in
Rio de Janeiro.
142 of these United Buddy Bears (each 2 m tall) stand together hand in hand in harmony - representing 142 countries acknowledged by the
United Nations. Each Bear has been designed individually by an artist on behalf of his or her native country.
Visual language
Hazimeh painted rural scenes, in an autumnal palette, with recurring figures of Palestinian peasant women carrying baskets on their heads.
Awards
*1957, Cairo Salon Prize
*1958, Fall Exhibition Prize in
amascus
References
External links
Ibrahim Hazimeh's Art Gallery
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1933 births
2023 deaths
Artists from Berlin
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig alumni
20th-century Palestinian male artists
20th-century Palestinian artists
Palestinian male painters
Palestinian painters
Palestinian refugees
People from Acre, Israel
Palestinian sculptors
21st-century Palestinian male artists
21st-century Palestinian artists