ZADKINE, OSSIP

ŏsēpˈ zädkēnˈ, 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).

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books on: Zadkine Ossip  - 55 results

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Modern Sculpture: Origins and Evolution
Book by Jean Selz, Annette Michelson; George Braziller, 1963
Subjects: Sculpture, Modern--20th Century
...National dArt Moderne. Paris. ZADKINE Ossip. 1929 RIDDER Andre de. Zadkine...Boymans Museum. Rotterdam. 1956 Ossip Zadkine . The National Gallery of Canada. 1957 ENGINCK. Begegnung mit Ossip Zadkine. Kunst und Volk . Zurich. 1958...
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Graphic Arts in the Twentieth Century
Book by Wolf Stubbe; Frederick A. Praeger, 1963
Subjects: Artists, Graphic Arts--History
...exhibition of graphic art at Ljubljana in 1961. ZADKINE, Ossip -- Born on 14 July 1890 at Smolensk. His...BECKER XXXVI, 1947; A. M. Hammacher, Zadkine , London, 1958; R. Cogniat, Zadkine , Paris, 1958. Ill. p. 200 ZAO WOU-KI...
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A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th Century--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
...illustrations and ballet decor. Zadkine, Ossip 1890-1967 . Russian-born sculptor...family of shipbuilders. In 1905 Zadkine was sent to Britain where he had...its rebuilding. This work gave Zadkine an international reputation and...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
Z Zadkine, Ossip 1890-1967 . Russianborn sculptor who...with Picasso and Braque, for although Zadkine was a learned artist, his primary concern...possible its rebuilding. This work gave Zadkine an internationed reputation and many...
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Who's Who in Jewish History: After the Period of the Old Testament
Book by Joan Comay; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Jews--Biography, Jews--Encyclopedias
...standards, the work is of great literary importance. ZADKINE, Ossip 1890-1967. Sculptor. The work of Russian-born Ossip Zadkine was influenced by primitive art and later in Paris by...
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journal articles on: Zadkine Ossip  - 6 results

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Zadkine and Gabo in Rotterdam
Journal article by Joan Pachner; Art Journal, Vol. 53, 1994
Subjects: Art history, Gabo, Naum, Memorials & monuments, Rotterdam Netherlands, Sculpture, World War II, Zadkine, Ossip (1890-1967)
...anguished, expressive work by Ossip Zadkine (conceived 1946, commissioned...of 1950s ideological debates. Ossip Zadkine, a Jew born in Russia in 1890...Editions dArt, 1964), 48. 4. Ossip Zadkine, Le Maillet et le Ciseau: Souvenirs...
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Elizabeth Catlett
Journal article by Robert Berlind; Art Journal, Vol. 53, 1994
Subjects: Catlett, Elizabeth, Older people, Personal profiles, Visual artists
...degree at the University of Iowa, and afterward with Ossip Zadkine in New York. Throughout her working life she has treated...sculpture and your prints. E.C.: Well, I worked with Ossip Zadkine and was influenced by him. R.B.: Yes. So you dont...
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Between Text and Sermon: Job 23:1-9, 16-17
Journal article by Samuel E. Balentine; Interpretation, Vol. 53, 1999
Subjects: Bible, Exegesis & hermeneutics, God, Job, Theology
...foot bronze statue designed by Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967) for the city of...Joban iconography, notes that when Zadkine saw this city that had been bombed...University Press, 1996 269). Zadkine depicts a person hollowed out in...
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The Mature Richier, the Young Cesar
Journal article by Michele C. Cone; Art Journal, Vol. 53, 1994
Subjects: Art history, Baldaccini, Cesar, Richier, Germaine (1902-59), Sculpture, Visual artists
...artists of Montparnasse who formed the core of the Ecole de Paris: Chaim Soutine, Moise Kisling, Amedeo Modigliani, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, among others.(6) Although they did not in fact show a uniform Expressionist facture, Expressionism...
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French Art of the Present in Hitler's Berlin
Journal article by Michele C. Cone; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Berlin Germany, Blum, Leon (1872-1950), Germany-pre-1945, Nazi era
...paintings by Louis Marcoussis, Pablo Picasso, Leopold Survage, its sculpture by Pablo Gargallo,Jacques Lipchitz, Ossip Zadkine, and many other modernist works next to more conservative ones by Moishe Kisling, Henri Lebasque, Francois Pompon...
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magazine articles on: Zadkine Ossip  - 4 results

 
 
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Chiaroscuro: Black Artists in the City of Light, 1945-1965
Magazine article by Valerie J. Mercer; American Visions, Vol. 12, February 1997
Subjects: African American artists--Exhibitions, African American painting--Exhibitions, African Americans--France, Paris, France--Influence
...Academie de la Grande Chaumiere or studied at the private ateliers of School of Paris artists, such as Fernand Leger and Ossip Zadkine. Eventually, their art was exhibited in French museums and galleries, as well as the American cooperative Galerie...
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Art and Identity: Elizabeth Catlett
Magazine article by Melanie Herzog; School Arts, Vol. 92, December 1992
Subjects: Catlett, Elizabeth--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women sculptors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...based programs. She studied lithography at the Art students League in New York, and worked with Modernist sculptor Ossip Zadkine. In 1945, she received a Julius Rosenwald Foundation grant to create a multimedia series on the theme of "The Negro...
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Why Paris?
Magazine article by James Panero; Humanities, Vol. 31, November 2010
Subjects: Artists, Cities, Innovations
...residents of La Ruche were mostly Eastern European: Marc Chagall, Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz, Alexander Archipenko, Ossip Zadkine, or from Italy: Amedeo Modigliani and Ardengo Soffici. Soffici describes the international scene of the studio house...
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Elizabeth Catlett: The Power of Form
Magazine article by Morton A. Kaplan; World and I, Vol. 13, July 1998
Subjects: Catlett, Elizabeth--Criticism and interpretation, Women sculptors--Criticism and interpretation
...as well as aspects of twentieth-century Modernism as seen in the work of Henry Moore, Constantin Brancusi, and Ossip Zadkine (the latter with whom she studied). A large exhibition of her works on paper went on tour in 1993. Now a sixty...


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newspaper articles on: Zadkine Ossip  - 4 results

 
 
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Romance through the Camera; Gallery Shows Kertesz Work
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 12, 2005
Subjects: Kertesz, Andre
...He also concentrated on capturing his new artist friends, such as Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, Fernand Leger and Ossip Zadkine. One of his most famous photographs of this period is his sparely shot "Chez Mondrian." Like many other Hungarians...
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Covering a Chef in France When the Town Is Not Exactly Provence
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 5, 2003
...rural France and Europe as a whole. Besides the restaurant, the village also has a church and a small museum honoring Ossip Zadkine, a Russian sculptor who had a weekend home there. But there are no shops, no bakery, no post office, nowhere to...
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Art Notes
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 31, 2008
...Lanker, Hon Ching Lee, Dipti Prakash Moharty, Michele Russo (1909-2004), Herbert Siebner (1925-2003) and Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967). Born in Czechoslovakia, and later living in Brazil and British Columbia, Zach settled in Eugene...
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Where Drawing Meets Sculpture
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 17, 2005
...It reminds me of Paris." Kley studied art at Brooklyn College and later worked in Paris with cubist sculptor Ossip Zadkine. She has long been fascinated by the interplay of two- and three-dimensional art, which she often refers to as...


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encyclopedia articles on: Zadkine Ossip  - 2 results

 
 
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Zadkine, Ossip
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZADKINE, OSSIP osep zadken , 1890 1967, Russian sculptor who worked in France. Joining the cubists in 1914, Zadkine developed a powerful, original style. He exerted considerable influence...
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Sculpture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...internationally, including Pablo Picasso , Constantin Brancusi , Jacques Lipschitz, Naum Gabo , Antoine Pevsner , Ossip Zadkine , Alberto Giacometti , and Ivan Mestrovic . Important contributions have also been made by the sculptors Jacob Epstein...


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