About Itschak de Lange
Itschak de Lange (1951) was born in Israel and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. His family is of German and Dutch origins.
Between 1975 and 1982 he studied art in Holland:
1975-1977 Vrij Academie, Den Haag, Holland, specialization in drawing, painting and print.
1977-1982 Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Holland. Gained a post-graduate M.A degree in art.
His works are regularly exhibited in one-man and group shows in leading art establishments in Israel, among them: The Israel Museum in Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Haifa museum; Yanko Dada museum in Ein Hod, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, and Baram museum. De Lange's works have been acquired by public museums and private collectors worldwide.
A central theme in de Lange's art is the search for his ancestral roots and the engagement with the fate of his immediate family members who lost their lives in the Holocaust. These concerns extend to a more general artistic exploration of family life under an ongoing threat of major disasters.
In recent years, his artworks provide a penetrating insight into the Israeli urban landscape. In the series "The Nephilim" and "Bunkers, Walls and Trenches", he depicts the confrontational, debatable ad apocalyptic presence of architectural structures that are supposed to provide physical and mental safety.
Throughout his career, he also paints self-portraits and portraits of family members, friends and colleagues. These drawings, watercolors, prints and oil paintings, constitute an in-depth study of the human spirit.
De Lange teaches and lectures courses of drawing, painting and printmaking in several higher education institutions. He initiated and runs large-scale artistic projects and collaborations; and curated several exhibitions of artists whose works appertain to his own artistic oeuvre.
Solo exhibitions
2017 Carousel, Shelter, Cloud, Jerusalem Cinematheque Gallery, Jerusalem
Curator: Tali Tamir
2016 Carousel, Shelter, Cloud, The Edge Gallery, Nahariya
Curator: Tali Tamir
2013 The Nefilim – Monfort, Jerusalem Cinematheque Gallery, Jerusalem
Curator: Prof. Haim Maor
2012 The Nefilim, Artists House, Tel Aviv
Curator: Prof. Haim Maor
2012 The Last Decade, Zisman Gallery, Tel Aviv
Curator: Daniella Talmor
2009 The Nefilim, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheba
Curator: Prof. Haim Maor
2008 Maarachot, New Artist's Center, Kiryat Tivo'n
Curator: Yifat Ben Natan
2008 'Crystal – Beton' (together with Lee Rimon)
The Edge Gallery, Nahariya
Curator: Tali Tami
2005 "Escapia" Wizo College Gallery, Haifa
Curator: Anat Gatenio
2004 New Works, Contemporary Art Gallery
Law office of Michael Pappe, Haifa
Curator: Itschak de Lange
2004 "The Visit", Kibbutz Givaat Haim Gallery
Curator: Hanush Morag
2003 "Talks I Had With Max and Uncle P"
New Artist Community Gallery, Kiryat Tivon
Curator: Yifat Ben Natan
2003 "Talks I Had With Max and Uncle P" - new works
On the Cliff, Municipal Gallery – Natanya
Curator: Hovav Givati
2002 "Talks I Had With Max and Uncle P"
Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
Curator: Tali Tamir (catalogue)
2002 from the series "Talks I Had With Max and Uncle P"
Pyramid Gallery, Haifa
Curator: Tali Tamir (curator's essay)
2002 "Archipelago"
The Art Center Gallery, Givat Haviva
Curator: Dalia Bar Amotz (catalogue)
1996 National Maritime Museum - Haifa Museum, Haifa
Curator: Daniella Talmor (catalogue)
1996 "Heaps and Bulbs" Kabri Gallery
Curator: Drora Dekel (curator's essay)
1996 The Artists House, Jerusalem
Curator: Tali Tamir
1996 Contemporary Art Shelter
Suzan Dallal Center, Tel Aviv
Curator: Tali Tamir (curator's essay)
1996 "Heaps and Bulbs"
Yanco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
Curator: Surin Heller (catalogue)
1995 "Bridges and Rafts" Noga Gallery, Herzelia,
Curator: Nehama Gotlieb (catalogue)
1994 Elizabeth Soutenberg Gallery
Western Galilee College
Curator: Shula Bloch
1994 Sadna Banof - Work Shop in the Woods - Art Center Amuka, Biriya Forest, near Safed
Curator: Itschak de Lange
1994 Gabriel House, Kineret
Curator: Sari Levin
1984 The New Gallery, Haifa
Curator: Shuli Sheinfield
1982 "Interior Exterior - Exterior Interior"
Aemstelle Museum, Amstelveen, Holland
1980 "Lines and Masses in Space"
Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Holland
Curator: Frank Loodijzen
Acquisitions
Museums:
Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Haifa Museum, Haifa.
Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod.
Private collections:
Israel, Holland, New Zealand, Switzerland, U.S.A.
Appears in the following books:
2014 "From Watch Tower to Fortified City" Forts and
Fortresses in Northern Israel from the Canaanites
to the IDF, editor D'r Mordechai Aviam
Kinneret Academic College and Ostracon
2011 Frame Work Story, 100 years of Israeli Art, Family
Picture chapter . Television series edited by Rutie Director
2000 "Kunst in Den Haag" , I.B. Creveld. Uitgeverij "De Nieuwe
Haagsche". P.202-204, 226
1999 "Nederlanders in Israel", Ruth de Jong, Uitgeverij
Groen. P.86-91
Participation in Group exhibitions
2023 1973, Memory Marking Map, The Gallery for Israeli Art
at the Tivon Memorial Center.
Curators: Michal Shachnai Yacobi and Dr. Marnin-Distefeld
2022 Zumu Museum Project, Nahariya
Curators: Milina Gitzin-Adiram, Shua Ben Ari, Shahar Ben-Nun
2017 All in the Family: Family Legacy in Israeli Art
The Gallery of Ben-Gurion University,
Curator: Haim Maor
2015 Print exhibition, gallery Rehorst, Den Haag, Holland
2014 "I am from Here'' The Peace Gallery, Givat Haviva
Curators: Etti Amram and Asnat Ben Shalom
2014 'Along the Lines of Imagination', Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Curator: Sara Raiman Shorr
2014 'Concrete Bulimia', Binyamini Center, Tel Aviv
Curator: Tali Tamir
2014 'Blue-and-White Delft', Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv
Curator: Dr. Doron Lurie
2014 'Bunkers, Walls and Trenches', The Edge Gallery, Nahariya, Israel
curator Itschak de Lange
2011 Yigal Allon center, Kibbutz Ginosar on the sea of Galilee
Curator: Nava Shoshani
2010 Nahariya Hosts the Big city, The Edge Gallery, Nahariya
Curator: Lee Rimon
2009 'Family Traces', Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Curator: Tami Manor Feridman
2009 Family' Bar David Museum, Kibbutz Baraam, Israel
Curator: Sol Lenzini
2008 'Strata of Memory', 'The Artist's House, Tell Aviv, Israel
Curator: Dr. Batya Brutin and Irit Levin
2008 Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt, Dusseldorf, Germany
Curator: Karin Rauers
2004 "Still Landscape - New and Old" Haifa Museum, Haifa
Curator: Daniella Talmor
2003 "Portraits - 4000 Years of Portraiture" Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Curator: Dr. Doron J. Lurie
2000 Milestones for Peace, Kastra Gallery, Haifa
The International Artists Museum (traveling exhibition)
Curator: Doron Polak
2000 "The Promised Land" Artists Constructing with Ackerstein Materials The Israel Trade Fairs Convention Center, Tel Aviv
Curators: Doron Polak and Ayelet Amoray (catalogue)
2000 Public Art, Givatayim Theater
Curators: Doron Polak and Ayelet Amoray(catalogue)
2000 Greetings of Peace, Givat Haviva
Curator: Etti Amram
1999 Facing Peace, The Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv
Curator: Doron Polak
1997 Artists Messengers of Peace, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Curator: Talia Rapaport
1997 "A Middle Eastern Horse" Installation on the roof of Beit Hagefen
Wadi Nisnas Artistic Events, Beit Hagefen, Haifa
Curator: Hanna Kofler
1997 Man and and Enviroment Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel
Curator: Drorit Gur Arie
1995 "Mediator" - Installation on the roof of Beit Hagefen
Wadi Nisnas Artistic Events, Beit Hagefen, Haifa
Curator: Hanna Kofler
1995 The Third Eye Gallery, Kibbutz Hasolelim
Curator: Orna Bruk
1991 Flowers "Amanut La’am" Art promotion - Israel
Traveling exhibition, Israel
Curator: Surin Heller
1991 Fall Exhibition, Teffen Museum
Curator: Natan Zach
1991 From the Limits of the West, "Amanut La'am" Art promotion - Israel
Traveling exhibition, Israel
Curator: Dr. Haim Finkelstein (catalogue)
1992 Bat Yam Museum
Curator: Hili Govrin
1992 "On the Peace Frontier - Meeting", Givat Haviva, Israel
Curator: Sarit Shapira
1990 Israeli Art Month, Israel Festival, Jerusalem Theater Jerusalem, Israel
Curator: Noa Aviram Pritski
1990 "Panda With no Rules", Petach Tikva Museum
Curator: Dalia Levin
1988 Print Exhibition, The Print Museum, Safed
1987 Print Exhibition, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1986 Kreihaus Museum, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Curator: Arie Sagi
1985 Print Exhibition, Ehad Haam 90 Gallery, Tel Aviv
Curators: Bilu Blich and Arie Berkovitch
1984 Ehad Haam 90 Gallery, Tel Aviv
Curators: Bilu Blich and Arie Berkovitch
1983 The Israeli Graphic Triennial, Haifa Museum
1982 Reitveld Academie, Amsterdam, Holland
1982 Den Helder Museum, Den Helder, Holland