Asaf Lifshitz

Asaf Lifshitz was an Israeli sculptor whose outdoor bronze statues stand in public places across Israel.

1942 to 2025The Drinking Pilot statueOutdoor bronze statues across IsraelThe Lion Who Loved StrawberriesStatues in Kfar Tavor

Born: 28 July 1942, Maoz Haim
Died: 22 March 2025, Maoz Haim
Occupation: sculptor

Asaf Lifshitz was born in 1942 in Maoz Haim

Asaf Lifshitz was born in 1942 in Kibbutz Ma'oz Haim to Israel (Srulik) and Lea Lifshitz. His mother was killed in a Haganah firing training accident when he was a small child. He was a cousin of the painter Uri Lifshitz, and the author Dvora Omer was his sister on his mother's side.

He went to the kibbutz school and served in the IDF Armored Corps as a tank crewman. He never studied at an art school and taught himself to sculpt. He worked as a metalworker on the kibbutz and sculpted from his youth.

Most of his works are outdoor statues of cast bronze, often showing playing figures and mixing fantasy with reality. His statue The Drinking Pilot stands in front of the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv. Other works stand in Kfar Tavor, Holon, Metula, Mitzpe Ramon, the Technion in Haifa and Tefen.

He held solo shows in Kfar Tavor and Tel Aviv and took part in group shows, including one in Paris. He died on 22 March 2025.