Ossip Zadkine

Ossip Zadkine , born the July 14th 1890 Vitebsk (Bielorussia), and deceased the November 25th 1967 with Paris, is a Sculpteur French of Russian origin , established in France in 1910. It is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse, in the eighth division.

Biography

In 1905, his/her parents send it to study English with Sunderland in the north of the England. It takes courses of sculpture in the local school of art. From 1905 to 1909, it settles with London without the permission of his parents. He visits the British Museum where he studies the traditional sculpture. He studies with the Regent Street Polytechnicum. He turns over to Smolensk where he carries out his first sculpture.

He studies at the national school of the Art schools of Paris of 1909 to 1910. He works with the Hive in the 15 {{E}} district. In 1911, it exposes its statues and drawings to the Salon of autumn and the Salon of Independent the. In 1912 and 1913, he studies the Romance sculpture. He meets Brancusi, Apollinaire, Lipchitz, Picasso, Bourdelle, Survage and Delaunay. Matisse visit also its workshop.

It exposes to Freie Sezession with Berlin, in Onafhankelijken of Amsterdam, in Allied Artists Association in London in 1914 and 1915. The collector Paul Rodocanachi enables him to have a workshop Rue Rousselet in Paris. It binds friendship with Modigliani.

It takes part in the First World War between 1916 and 1917, inspiring to him by many watercolours on the war. Demobilized in 1917, he declares himself destroyed physically and morally by the war. After a stay at the hospital of Epernay, it leaves to Bruniquel. In 1918 and 1919, it carries out 20 etchings.

It Marie in 1920 with Valentine Prax (1897 - 1981).

In 1921, Maurice Raynal writes the first monograph of the work of Zadkine, published by an Italian editor, Valori Plastici. Between 1923 and 1925, Zadkine travels in Italy and exposes to the Takenodai gallery of Tokyo. The Musée of Grenoble buys in 1922 the statue out of wooden gilded the Deer . The Barbazanges Gallery in Paris exposes a retrospective of its works in 1926.

In 1928, Zadkine settles 100 (a) Rue of Assas in a White House which will become the Musée Zadkine with died of his wife. A retrospective is then devoted to him to London. In 1934, at the time of their first voyage in the Batch, Zadkine and its wife buy a house with the Arques, a small village of the Quercy, which will become the places of creations of many sculptures.

Zadkine leaves to the the United States during the second world war. As from 1944, it gives courses to the Arts Students League . It returns to France in September 1945, “patient, sad and without money”.

Between 1948 and 1950, it makes the object of many expostions and retrospectives:

Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
National museum of Modern art of Paris
Museum Boijmans with Rotterdam where it presents the premère draft of the destroyed City (Of verwoeste stad), a six meters high monument devoted to the war, which will be definitively installed on May 15th, 1953 in Rotterdam.

It gives courses until 1958 to the Academy of the Large Thatched cottages in Paris. Between 1955 and 1960, it carries out sculptures devoted to Vincent Van Gogh. It exposes to the Canada, the the United States and the Japan. Zadkine is devoted then more particularly to graphic art. In its workshop of the village of the Arch, in the Batch, it carves many works including one pièta in 1957.

Auvers-sur-Oise accommodates its Monument in Van Gogh in 1961. In 1962, the Lacloche gallery in Paris exposes for the first time the Tapestries . In 1963, Zadkine begins the 3rd version of the Residence at the request of the bank of the Netherlands. Zundert, town of birth of Vincent Van Gogh accueuille the statue the Two Brothers Van Gogh .

Between 1965 and 1966, Le Monde secrecy of Zadkine , delivers comprising photographs of D. Buchanan and 25 poems of Zadkine and the human Forest , comprising 18 lithographies, are published. A great retrospective is devoted to him to the Kunsthaus Zurich.

Major works

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