Ossip Zadkine

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Cyrillic ( Russian )
Осип Цадкин
Transl. : Osip Cadkin
Transcr. : Ossip Zadkin
Willem Sandberg and Ossip Zadkine (right) (1965)

Ossip Zadkine (born July 14, 1890 in Vitebsk , Russian Empire , † November 25, 1967 in Paris ) was a Belarusian- French painter , watercolor painter and sculptor of Cubism .

Life

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Unveiling of the monument The Destroyed City in Rotterdam in 1953

At the age of 16 Ossip Zadkine went to England in 1906. In addition to language studies, he also studied modeling and attended an art school in Sunderland and the Regent Street Polytechnic in London . After a short stay in his Belarusian homeland, he moved to Paris in 1909. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris for six months without any benefit , but made his debut in 1911 at the Salon d'Automne . Ossip Zadkine was an admirer of Auguste Rodin all his life , but he had no influence on his own art. Since 1912 he sent his works for the artist group to the Indépendants . Ossip Zadkine joined the Cubist movement from 1914 to 1925. Since then, under the influence of Cubism, he has created completely independent works in his own lyrical and musical art. Ossip Zadkine made his sculptures directly from the stone or wood.

During the First World War he was a medic and was wounded. In 1921 he received French citizenship. In 1921 and 1925 he was a teacher at the Grande Chaumière in Paris. Ossip Zadkine exhibited at the Salon de Tuileries and the Salon d'Automne since 1923 . Now he developed his own style, which was strongly based on primitivism and African sculpture. In 1941 he emigrated to the USA . In New York he taught at the Art Students League of New York . In 1945 he returned to Paris and again became a teacher at the Grande Chaumière. 1950 Ossip Zadkine was at the Biennale in Venice awarded the prize for sculpture.

He was married to Valentine Prax.

Ossip Zadkine died in Paris in 1967 at the age of 77. It rests on the Cimetière du Montparnasse .

Works

His best-known work is probably the sculpture The Destroyed City (Dutch De verwoeste stad ), a 6.5 m high bronze sculpture , which was created 1951-1953, a memorial, which is to commemorate the wanton destruction of Rotterdam by the German air force in 1940.

Awards

  • 1950: Venice Biennale Prize for Sculpture
  • 1960: Grand prix national des arts

Exhibitions

  • 1911: Participation in the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , Paris
  • 1920: first exhibition in his own studio in Paris, rue Rousselet
  • 1927: in the Centaur in Brussels
  • 1927: Barbazanges Gallery in Paris
  • 1931: in Philadelphia
  • 1932: Venice Biennale
  • 1933: in Chicago
  • 1933: Petit Palais in Paris
  • 1934: Retrospective in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
  • 1937: Participation in the exposition des maîtres de l'art indépendant in the Petit Palais on the occasion of the world exhibition in Paris
  • 1941: 1941 in the Wildenstein Gallery in New York
  • 1941: Gallery Brummer in New York
  • 1943: Valentine Gallery in New York
  • 1944: Bognou Gallery in London
  • 1948: Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels
  • 1948: Stedelik Museum in Amsterdam,
  • 1949: Retrospective at the Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris
  • 1949: Boymans Museum in Rotterdam
  • 1950: Venice Biennale
  • 1952: Leicester Gallery in London
  • 1954: in the museum in Arnhem
  • 1954: French house on Königsallee in Düsseldorf
  • 1958: Maison de la Pensée Française in Paris
  • 1959: documenta II , Kassel
  • 1959: Galleria La Palma in Locarno.

student

The list is arranged chronologically according to the year of birth of the artist. There is no claim to completeness.

literature

  • Christa Lichtenstern: Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967): the sculptor and his iconography , Mann, Berlin 1980
  • Gaston-Louis Marchal: Ossip Zadkine, La sculpture ... toute une vie , Les éditions du Rouerge, Millau 1992, ISBN 2-905209-64-X
  • Andreas Weiland, (Re-) Discovering Zadkine , in: Art-in-Society , No. 10 online

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personal data
SURNAME Zadkine, Osip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cubist painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitebsk
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1967
Place of death Paris