Презентация на тему Ossip Zadkine

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.
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
Le cerf 1923
Sculpture

Works on paper
Le joueur de guitare
1920
Quatre personnages dans un village
1921

Graphical works
Le rêve
1955
La conversation
1955

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.