Artwork by Ossip Zadkine
1 artwork currently available by Ossip Zadkine.
About the Artist
(1890-1967, French) "
Ossip Zadkine was a French sculptor, draughtsman and
printmaker of Belorussian birth. He
spent his childhood in Smolensk in a circle of cultured and assimilated
Jews. His father was a convert to the
Orthodox Church, and his mother came from an immigrant family of Scottish
shipwrights. While staying with his
mother’s relatives in Sunderland, northern England, in 1905, he attended the
local art school and taught himself to carve furniture ornaments.
At the age of 16, Zadkine continued his artistic training
in London, taking evening classes in life drawing and making his living as an
ornamental woodcarver. During this time
he became friendly with the painter David Bomberg. Zadkine continued his studies at the Regent
Street Polytechnic, London, and later, in 1908, at the Central School of Arts
and Crafts, London, where he concentrated on techniques in wood.” Grove
Dictionary of Art