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Zadkine, Ossip
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Zadkine, Ossip (ŏsēp` zädkēn`), 1890–1967, Russian sculptor who worked in France. Joining the cubists in 1914, Zadkine developed a powerful, original style. He exerted considerable influence upon contemporary sculptors after World War II. Among his best-known works is the public monument The Destruction of Rotterdam (1954).

Zadkine, Ossip

(born July 14, 1890, Smolensk, Russia—died Nov. 25, 1967, Paris, France) Russian-born French sculptor. Educated in England, he moved to Paris in 1909 and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. Influenced by both Cubism and Classical Greek sculpture, he developed a unique figurative style featuring concave and convex forms, lines, and parallel planes. During World War II he taught at New York City's Art Students League. His large bronze To a Destroyed City (1951–53), an homage to Rotterdam, is regarded as a masterpiece. In 1950 he received the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and in the 1960s he received commissions for statues in Jerusalem, Amsterdam, and elsewhere.



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101) and two works made by the Russian sculptor Ossip Zadkine, a bronze statue of Laocoon (1936), and his masterpiece 'La Ville Detruite', which was inspired by his experiences while passing through Rotterdam by train in 1946, and represents a kind of 'metamorphosis' of his earlier statue of Laocoon (the plates on p.
His early studies were with the French sculptor Ossip Zadkine in Paris and American sculptors Jose de Creeft and William Zorach in New York.
 
 
 
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