Ossip zadkine biography of alberta

In his parents sent him to his mother's northern English homeland.

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He called himself Joe Zadkine until After attending the polytechnic and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, the young artist went to Paris in There, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts which he quits again soon after in order to work as freelance artist. World war I left its traces in his person and his work.

Already during the s retrospective exhibitions of his work took place. In he fled to the United States. In he was awarded the first prize for sculpture at the "Venice Biennale" and in the "Grand Prix de la Sculpture" of the city of Paris. In the s he reached the peak of his fame. His works travelled around the world in countless exhibitions and Ossip Zadkine worked at home on graphic series, monumental sculptures and book projects.

Ossip Zadkine died in Paris on 25 November Zadkine's early work was crucially inspired by Auguste Rodin as well as the cubists, who's principles he translated into sculpture. As of about he rejected cubist use of forms and acquired a softer style. The s saw the characteristic erosions and perforations of his sculptures.

Ossip Zadkine was married to the painter Valentine Prax who, in , bequeathed two of Zadkine's former studios as well as the main body of his works to the city of Paris as a basis for the foundation of a Zadkine-museum.