David Palombo
David Palombo was born in Turkey in 1920 and moved to the Palestine in
1923 with his family. At a young age he worked for the Postal Service laying
underground cables and with time became the manger of the cable laying
division of the postal service. In 1940 he began to study at the Bezalel Art
Institute and in 1942 began studying sculpture with the sculptor Ze’ev Ben Tzvi
and for a time worked as his assistant and also studied sculpture at Bezalel.
Palombo was instrumental in the artistic revolution going on in Israel in the
1950’s. Modern Art had arrived in Israel from Europe, and early Israeli artists
stopped depicting figurative subjects, and began a process of simplification
through which depiction became more abstract. Palombo’s works came to
epitomize the simplicity of that movement, which was expressed through the
construction of boards that were cut out and torn in dynamic dramatic opposing
forms. His iron sculptures (the majority of his work), featured small molded
animalistic forms welded to cut out iron plates and other twisted iron pieces.
Palombo created a number of famous sculptures associated with some of
the principal sites of the land of Israel, including gates to the Yizkor Tent, the
entrance to Yad VaShem and the entrance gate to the Knesset. Many of his works
can be seen at Beit David Palombo in Har Zion, which housed his workshop in
Jerusalem.
Palombo was killed in a motorcycle accident when he rode into a Shabbat gate
in the Haredi community of Yamin Moshe. He is buried in Har HaMenohot in
Jerusalem.
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