Ossip Zadkine is best known in the Netherlands for his monumental outdoor sculptures. This beautiful poster of the exhibition, which took place in the Singer Laren museum 2003/2004, shows Zadkine at work.
This sculptor (1890-1967), born in Vitebks, Russia, came to the Netherlands after the Second World War. Zadkine was then asked to keep alive the memory of the bombing of the city of Rotterdam in the May days of 1940. He became the creator of the 'Destroyed City'. It is much less known that Zadkine also had an influence on Dutch sculpture as a teacher. His studio in Paris was a stopping place for young sculptors.
The Singer Museum in Laren (NH) organized an exhibition about this unknown aspect of Zadkine's work in 2013. This makes it clear that Zadkine played a significant role in the art of the first half of the 20th century, not only with his own work but also with that of his students.