Ossip Zadkine

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Ossip Zadkine (July 14, 1890 - November 25, 1967) - artist and sculptor.

Born in Vitebsk, Belarus of Jewish and Scottish extraction, he is primarily known as a sculptor but also produced paintings and lithographs.

After attending art school in London, Zadkine settled in Paris about 1910, where he became part of the new Cubist movement (1914-1925). After this time, he developed an original style, strongly influenced by primitive arts.

He served as a stretcher-bearer in World War I, and was wounded in action. He spent the years of World War II in exile in America.

His best-known work is probably the sculpture "City without heart", a memorial to the wanton destruction of the center of Rotterdam by the Germans in 1940.[1]

He taught at his Zadkine School of Sculpture.

Ossip Zadkine died in Paris at the age of 77 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse.