Ossip Zadkine
Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967) - artist Born on July 14, 1890 in Smolensk or in Witebsk, Belarus of Jewish extraction, he is primarily known as a sculptor but also produced paintings and lithographs. After attending art school in London, Zadkine settled in Paris about 1910, where he became part of the new Cubist movement (1914 - 1925). After this time, he developed an original style, strongly influenced by primitive arts. He served as a stretcher-bearer in World War I, and was wounded in action.
He spent the years of World War II in exile in America. His best-known work is probably the sculpture "City without heart", a memorial to the wanton destruction of the center of Rotterdam by the Germans in 1940. [1] He taught at his Zadkine School of Sculpture. Ossip Zadkine died on November 25, 1967 in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris.
External links Musée Zadkine - Site Officiel d’Ossip Zadkine Ossip Zadkine Research Center
Zadkine was born in Vitebsk, Belarus http://www.ossip-zadkine.com/zadbio.html
His ethnic background was Jewish and Scottish.
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