Dani Daniel Kafri, Large Dani Kafri Israeli Modernist Judaica Birkat Kohanim Bronze Sculpture

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Dani Kafri (Czech Israeli, 1945-2024)
Bronze sculpture of a father and son
Birkat Kohanim (Birchat Kohanim)
1987,
Signed D. Kafri … Read more Dani Kafri (Czech Israeli, 1945-2024)
Bronze sculpture of a father and son
Birkat Kohanim (Birchat Kohanim)
1987,
Signed D. Kafri and marked A.P,
Dimensions 23" H x 12" W x 9"

Daniel Kafri, sculptor, born 1945, Czechoslovakia. He works in bronze, marble, steel and terracotta
Dani Kafri is one of the most famous and valued sculptors in the world of Jewish Art.
Education: Bezalel School of Art, Jerusalem. Advanced studies, New York City and Carrera, Italy

In 1970 he was among those whose works were chosen to represent Israel in the Monaco Biennale for Young Artists, and in 1977 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for sculpture.
Dani Kafri created an in dependent style derived from the archaic forms of ancient Middle Eastern sculpture, whose esthetic values demanded a non-realistic, abstract approach.
In 1981 Kafri won an invitational competition among 20 leading Israeli sculptors which was sponsored by the Women's League of United Synagogue of America. His "twelve tribes of Israel"

Select Public Sculptures

1977 Kiryat Hayovel, Jerusalem
Ben-Gurion Airport- Busts of David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin
Old Jaffa- "Gate of Faith" Statue
Eilat Boardwalk- "Liberation of Eilat"
Beer Sheva- Soroka Hospital
Taba, Egypt- "Stonewall" Monument in Hotel Sonesta-Taba
Rehovot- Weizmann Institute of Science-"Monument"
Yad Vashem Children's Memorial; Jerusalem- marble portrait of Child memorial exhibit
Derech Hebron, Jerusalem, sculpture in memory of Ethiopian Jews who died on their way to Israel
Mount Scopus in Jerusalem is the Hebrew University Monument.

​Select Exhibitions

Mayanot Gallery along with classic Israeli artists, Abel Pann, Ludwig Blum, Zeev Raban, Shmuel Charuvi and Zvi Malnovitzer.
New Sculpture and Painting from Israel: Works by Aharona Reiner and Danny Kafri
B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Israel at 50 The Jewish Museum, Washington DC, USA
Artists: Judith Yellin Ginat, Haim Maor, Ruth Horam, Asad Azi, David Dudu Gerstein, Arona Reiner, Eli Shvadron, Margalit Manor, Nira Chorev and Marek Yanai.


Jerusalemer Künstler in Zürich Helmhouse, Zürich, Switzerland, 1973
Isidor Aschheim, Joseph Budko, Zev Ben Zvi, Mordechai Levanon, Grete Wolf Krakauer, Leopold Krakauer, David Palombo, Boris Schatz, Jacob Steinhardt, Jakob Naftali Bezem, Motke Blum, Aharon Bezalel, Daniel Kafri, Avraham Ofek, Jacob Pins, David Rakia, Bezalel Schatz, (Lilik) Yossi Stern, Anna Ticho.
Festa Floresta, New Floresta, Boca Raton, Florida, USA 1982
Artists: Nachum Gutman, Igael Tumarkin, Zahara Rubin,Yosl Bergner
Time for Art - Center for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv, 2005
Artists: Leonid Balaklav, Abel Pann, Arieh Merzer, Moshe Castel, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Zvi Malnovitzer, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel, Reuven Rubin, Hermann Struck, Kafri, Daniel See less