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Glicenstein depicted the Jewish Messiah as a semi-nude figure in the classical style, with bowed head and tethered to his seat. It received early recognition, admired by Rodin and praised in the…
Contributor:
Henryk Glicenstein
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1911
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Jacob Epstein’s primitive style was not to everyone’s liking, especially when it came to his sculptures with biblical and religious themes. The overt sexuality of some of his sculptures also aroused…
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Jacob Epstein
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1940
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Herbert Ferber’s twelve-foot-high sculpture was originally commissioned to adorn the façade of Congregation B’nai Israel in Milburn, New Jersey. Percival Goodman, the new building’s architect…
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Herbert Ferber
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1951–1952
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Berman’s best-known work is her Holocaust memorial for the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island in Washington State. The twelve-foot-high bronze sculpture consists of stylized Hebrew…
Contributor:
Gizel Berman
Places:
Seattle, United States of America
Date:
1981
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The first version of The Rock Drill, exhibited in 1915, was a white plaster figure sitting astride a real drill, an amalgam of man and machine. The sculptor, Jacob Epstein, originally intended it as a…
Contributor:
Jacob Epstein
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1913–1915
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Sailor with Guitar is one of Jacques Lipchitz’s early cubist sculptures, an experiment in translating painterly cubist concepts into three dimensions. The figure of the sailor was inspired by sailors…
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Jacques Lipchitz
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Paris, France
Date:
1914
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By the 1920s, Montparnasse artist Chana Orloff was a popular portrait sculptor. Showing the influences of cubism and classical and “primitive” art, her flowing, smooth-surfaced sculptures in wood or…
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Chana Orloff
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1924
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By the mid-1920s, Zadkine had shifted from a purely cubist style to a new approach that drew on African and classical Greek art. His subject matter was often inspired by stories from the Bible and…
Contributor:
Ossip Zadkine
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1927
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Janco and the subject of this portrait, poet Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), played leading roles in creating the Dada movement in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I. Janco made several masks that…
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Marcel Janco
Places:
Zurich, Switzerland
Date:
1919
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This portrait of Aharon Meskin (1898–1974) exemplifies Ben-Zvi’s cubist sculpture. Meskin was a leading actor in the Hebrew-language Habima Theater, who began his association with the troupe while it…
Contributor:
Ze’ev Ben-Zvi
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1938