Ossip Zadkine - Le conseiller

1936

66 x 34 x 28 cm

Bronze

Edition of 10 + 4 EA

 

More about this bronze sculpture

This Ossip Zadkine - Le conseiller bronze sculpture was conceived in 1936.

In 1923, physician Hendrik Wiegersma (1891-1969) welcomed the artist Otto van Rees (1884-1957) and his family in Deurne. Van Rees, who had received his artistic training in France, had been seriously injured four years earlier in a train accident in Pont-sur-Yonne. His daughter did not survive the disaster. In Deurne, Van Rees was able to recover – and in order not to become completely alienated from the Parisian art scene that he had left behind, Van Rees regularly invited foreign artists to the East Brabant landscape. In this way, the physician Wiegersma also came into contact with new art movements, and the inspired doctor started painting in 1924. Wiegersma’s new friends and sources of inspiration, the Russian sculptor Moissey Kogan (1879-1943) and the writer Charles-Albert Cingria (1883-1954) also brought him into contact with the Russian-French sculptor Ossip Zadkine. In 1926, Wiegersma and his wife visited Cingria in Paris, and after Zadkine joined the company there, a close and lifelong friendship developed between Zadkine and the Dutch physician.