Shamaï Haber

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Composition sur un plateau (1956)
Composition for a garden (1959)

Shamaï Haber (born February 15, 1922 in Łódź , Poland , † August 24, 1995 in Paris , France ) was a French-Israeli sculptor who was born in Poland.

life and work

Haber, who was born in Poland, immigrated with his Jewish family to the British Mandate Palestine via Luxembourg in 1935 . He was trained at the Art Academy in Tel Aviv and went to France in 1949, where he settled in Paris on Montparnasse . From 1954 he made sculptures from large blocks of stone, which he related to each other. He left the stone, granite or marble surfaces largely in a rough condition and only partially polished them.

Haber won the Prix ​​Bourdelle for his work in 1959 . In 1959, on behalf of the Kröller-Müller Museum , Bram Hammacher checked the selection of two sculptures in his studio on the occasion of the opening of the sculpture park there . In 1960, Haber was invited by Willem Sandberg from the Stedelijk Museum to Amsterdam and, as agreed, set up the two works in the park in Otterlo.

In 1961, Haber and Itzhak Danziger participated in the Jeune sculpture exhibition at the Musée Rodin in Paris for Israel . From 1960 onwards he worked mainly in France and never returned to Israel. He died of a heart attack in his Paris studio.

Works (selection)

  • Composition sur un plateau (1956), sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo
  • Construction en équilibre (1957/59), sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum (dismantled there)
  • Compositie voor een tuin (1959), Stedelijk Museum collection at the Siegerpark in Amsterdam
  • Cascade of Écriture sur l'eau (1965), Vondelpark in Amsterdam
  • Homme écrasé par la ville (1973), Rue du Cherche-Midi / Boulevard Raspail in Paris
  • Fontaine Littré (1983), Rue Littré in Paris (no longer in this location)
  • Fontaine "Le Creuset du Temps" (1988), Place de Catalogne in Paris

Web links

Commons : Shamaï Haber  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toos van Kooten, Marente Bloemheuvel: Beeldentuin Kröller-Müller Museum. NAi Uitgevers: Rotterdam 2007. pp. 227-228 ISBN 978-90-5662-582-5
  2. ↑ Illustration: Composition for the garden (1959)
personal data
SURNAME Haber, Shamaï
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Israeli sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź , Poland
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1995
Place of death Paris , France