Zeev Ben-Zvi

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Zeev Ben-Zvi (1904–1952) (זאב בן-צבי) was a Polish-Israeli sculptor born in Ryki, Poland, whose work influenced a generation of sculptors.

Biography

Born Beniamin Kujawski, Zeev Ben-Zvi studied at Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw. In 1923, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he studied at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem from 1923 to 1924. When the New Bezalel School opened, he taught sculpture there from 1926 to 1927. In 1937, he travelled to Paris and then to London from 1937 to 1938. He specialized in portrait heads in beaten copper and mounded plaster, which he treated in a cubist manner. In 1947, he created the monument "In Memory of the Children of the Diaspora" in Mishmar Haemek.

Awards and recognition

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