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Ossip Zadkine

Ossip Zadkine (July 14, 1890 - November 25, 1967) was a Russian Jewish sculptor and artist. Ossip Zadkine (July 14, 1890 - November 25, 1967) was a Russian Jewish sculptor and artist. Born in Vitebsk, Belarus, then Russian Empire, of Jewish and Scottish extraction, Zadkine is primarily known as a sculptor but also produced paintings, drawings and graphical works.

Zadkine's contribution to modern sculpture spans a period of more than a half century. Zadkine's contribution to modern sculpture spans a period of more than a half century. It constitutes one of the highlights of contemporary art, embodying its spirit of independence, adventure, and fertile restlessness. Its dominant features are nervous tension carried to its extreme, great daring, poignancy and a monumental style.

Femme debout 1922

Works on paper

Graphical works

His best-known work is the sculpture "The Destroyed City" (1953), a memorial to the destruction of the center of the Dutch city Rotterdam by the Germans in 1940.

Zadkine, whose immense formal and poetic contribution is indisputable, grants that an as a mode of human activity, transcends the notion of progress. As an artist, he resolutely looks to the future, yet assumes the burden of history.