Haïm Kern

Haïm Kern (born the December 4th 1930 with Leipzig in Germany -) is a French sculptor of German origin.

Biography

The family of Haïm Kern flees the Nazi regime as of 1933 and takes refuge then in France. Of 1953 with 1958, Haïm Kern is pupil with the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools of Paris. He lives and works with Paris.

Its most known work is “ They did not choose their burial ”, a monumental sculpture out of 4 height meters bronze, set up on the Plateau of California to Craonne in 1998. This public order commemorates the eightieth birthday of the Armistice of 1918. The sculpture pays homage to all the anonymous soldiers of the war, taken in the meshs of the History.

It is Lionel Jospin, the Prime Minister for the time, which inaugurated the monument the November 5th 1998. In its speech, Lionel Jospin wished that the Soldats shot for the example, “exhausted by attacks condemned in advance, slipping into a soaked mud of blood, plunged in a despair bottomless”, which “refused to be sacrificed”, victims “of a discipline whose rigor had of equal only the hardness of the engagements, reinstate today, fully, our national collective memory.”

The name of Craonne was popularized by the Song of Craonne which remains associated with the mutineers with the First World War, this popularity is not without relationship with the absence until 1998 of national celebration in this commune however located in the middle of the battle of the Chemin of the Ladies.

Works

Homage to François Mauriac , Paris, (1990)
unaccomplished lives , Vault Midsummer's Day (2001)
the convoy n° 8 , Station of Angers, (2002)
Of Nothing To reappear , District council of Lorraine, (2005)

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