Dani Karavan
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Daniel "Dani" Karavan (7 December 1930 – 29 May 2021) was an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment.
One of his projects is the Walter Benjamin Memorial, entitled Passages; Homage to Walter Benjamin for Walter Benjamin constructed between 1990 and 1994 in Portbou at the Spanish-French border in Spain where the German-Jewish author died in September 1940.
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List of projects
- Negev memorial monument (1963–68, Beersheva)
- Memorial to the Holocaust, 1972, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- Kikar Levana (Hebrew for The White Plaza; 1977-1988, Tel Aviv, Israel)
- Tower of Tears (memorial installation at Yad La-Shiryon, Latrun, Israel)
- Axis of the Metropolis (1980-, Cergy-Pontoise, France)
- Tzaphon (iron sculpture in the form of a disc for the entrance square of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1990)
- The Way of Human Rights (1989–93, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany)
- Passage, a Homage to Walter Benjamin (1990–94, Portbou, Catalonia, Spain)
- Way to the Hidden Garden (1992–99, Sapporo Art Forest open-air gallery, Japan)
- Ma'ayan (1993–95, Miyazaki Prefecture Art Museum, Japan)
- Way of Peace (1996-2000, Negev Desert near Nitzana, Israel)
- Bereshit (Hebrew:Genesis; 2000-, Kirishima Art Forest, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan)
- Regensburg Synagogue memorial, 2005
- Time (2009, Calenzano, Italy)
- Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism (2012, Berlin, Germany)
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