Ossip Zadkine in Paris, 1965
Writings by and about Zadkine:
Ossip Zadkine is one of the masters of the School of Paris.
Many art critics consider him, in fact, the greatest living sculptor of our day.
His 'Destroyed City', commemorating war-torn Rotterdam, is world-famous.
He was awarded first prizes for sculpture at the XXVth Venice Biennale in 1950 as well
as from the City of Paris in 1960.
His works have been shown in more than one hundred eighty exhibitions, and modern art museums throughout the world have granted them places of honor.
The School of Paris, to which Zadkine belongs, is not 'a school' in the accepted sense of the word.
The highly diversified artistic movements that have been grouped under this name are often of contradictory character;
indeed, in the cases of Cubism and Surrealism, Expressionism and Abstract Art they are sometimes mutually exclusive.
The School of Paris grew in a climate of intellectual freedom and audacity in artistic creation.
It was a wave, which, even before the First World War, engulfed young painters, sculptors, writers and musicians who
had come from all countries to Montparnasse.
Ionel Jianou, 1964 (excerpt)