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Ossip Zadkine, born Iosel Aronovič Cadkin (Russian: Иосель Аронович Цадкин?) (Vitebsk, 14 July 1890 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 25 November 1967), was a Russian-born French sculptor. He was born in what is now Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, to a Jewish father and a mother of Scottish origins with the name Iosel' Aronovič Čadkin. Read the full biography

Ossip Zadkine, born Iosel Aronovič Cadkin (Russian: Иосель Аронович Цадкин?) (Vitebsk, 14 July 1890 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 25 November 1967), was a Russian-born French sculptor. He was born in what is now Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, to a Jewish father and a mother of Scottish origins with the name Iosel' Aronovič Čadkin. After attending art school in London, Zadkine settled in Paris around 1910. There he became part of the Cubist movement (1914-1925). He subsequently developed his own style, strongly influenced by African art. He participated in the First World War fighting in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion between 1916 and 1917, the year in which he was discharged. His best-known work is probably the sculpture The Destroyed City (1951-1953), a statue commemorating the destruction of the center of the Dutch city of Rotterdam by the German Luftwaffe in 1940. He also sculpted a statue dedicated to Van Gogh, located in a Auvers sur-Oise park. In 1951 he won the prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale and had a notable influence on contemporary sculptors after the Second World War. In 1962 he participated, together with the most important international sculptors of the time, in the Sculptures in the City exhibition organized by Giovanni Carandente as part of the V Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He presented three sculptures: Orphée from 1949 in patinated plaster, Arlequin hurlant from 1956 in patinated plaster and La poétesse from 1962 in bronze. He died in Paris in 1967 and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery.