Zeev Ben-Zvi ( 1904 , Ryki , Sedletskaya province , Russian Empire - May 16, 1952 ) - Israeli sculptor of Polish origin.
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Born in the Kingdom of Poland, which was part of the Russian Empire. Since the beginning of World War I, his family fled to Yekaterinoslav, where she lived for four years. From 1921 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in 1923 he emigrated to Palestine, which was then a British mandated territory . In 1923–24 he studied at the Bezalel Academy . After the opening of the new academy, Bezalel taught sculpture there from 1926 to 1927. In 1928 he went to Paris to study cubism. In 1932 and 1933 he organized two major exhibitions of his works in Tel Aviv. In 1937 he trained in Paris, in 1937-1938 - in London and Glasgow, returning to Palestine in 1939. From 1949 he again taught at Bezalele, and in 1952, several months before his death, he headed the academy.
He mainly worked in the direction of Cubism, specialized in sculptural portraits of heads, worked with copper. Among his students were many later famous sculptors of Israel. One of his most famous works is the cenotaph “In memory of the children of the diaspora”, created in 1945 in memory of the Jewish children who died during the Second World War. In 1953, he was posthumously awarded the Dizengoff Prize [3] and the Israel Prize [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Israeli Art Information Center - 1975.
- ↑ Artnet - 1998.
- ↑ List of Dizengoff Prize laureates (Hebrew) . Tel Aviv Municipality. Archived April 8, 2013.
- ↑ Israel Prize recipients in 1953 (in Hebrew) . Israel Prize Official Site. Archived January 24, 2010.
Links
- Ben-Zvi // Banquet Campaign 1904 - Big Irgiz. - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2005. - P. 332. - (The Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004–2017, t. 3). - ISBN 5-85270-331-1 .