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Itzhak Danziger
Figures in the Forest
1960

Name: Figures in the Forest
Brand: Itzhak Danziger

$3,600List Price

About the Item

Yitzhak Danziger (1916-1977), German Israeli artist sculptor. Danziger was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" (New Horizons) group. Danziger was born in Berlin in 1916 to a Zionist family. His father was a surgeon and served in the German Army during World War I. The family immigrated to then Mandate Palestine in 1923 and settled in Jerusalem. Danziger studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art 1934–37. He was influenced by his visits to the British Museum, the Anthropological Museum and the art from Ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, India and Oceania and Africa. These would later on play an important role in his sculptures. He returned to Palestine and set up a studio at Tel Aviv in 1937. Danziger created his statue "Nimrod" in 1938–1939. The statue is 90 centimeters high and made of Red Nubian Sandstone imported from Petra in Jordan. It depicts Nimrod as a naked hunter, uncircumcised, carrying a bow and with a hawk on his shoulder. The style shows the influence of Ancient Egyptian statues. The unveiling of the statue caused a scandal. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem which had commissioned Danziger's statue was not happy with the result and religious circles made strong protests. Within a few years, however, the statue was universally acclaimed as a major masterpiece of Israeli art, and has noticeably influenced and inspired the work of later sculptors, painters, writers and poets up to the present. The Nimrod Statue was also taken up as the emblem of a cultural-political movement known as "The Cannanites" which advocated the shrugging off of the Jewish religious tradition, cutting off relations with Diaspora Jews and their culture, and adopt in its place a "Hebrew Identity" based on ancient Semitic heroic myths – such as Nimrod's. Though never gaining mass support, the movement had a considerable influence on Israeli intellectuals in the 1940s and early 1950s. In 1958 was elected member of the Public Council for Culture and the Arts. In 1968 was appointed Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion Institute, Haifa. In 1971 was appointed artistic adviser to the Negev University Campus. In 1972 was appointed member of the Board of Higher Education of the Ministery of Education and Culture. In 1977 he was killed in a road accident near Ramla, on his way to Jerusalem. In 2005, he was voted the 193rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. Education 1923-25 Private school for progressive education 1925 Bezalel School 1926-29 Hebrew Gymnasium 1930-32 Bible and history, Gymnasia Herzelia 1932-33 Reali School, Haifa 1933-34 Ottershaw Colleage, Surrey outside London 1934-37 Sculpture with sculptor Gerrard, Slade School of Fine Arts, University of London 1951-52 School of the Architecture Association (A.A.), London Teaching 1955 Faculty of Architecture at the Technion, Haifa Awards 1945 Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture. 1958 Milo Club Award, Kiryat Ono Monument Prize 1968 Israel Prize, in sculpture. 1969 Sandberg Prize Israel Museum of Jerusalem

Creator:
Itzhak Danziger (1916-1977, Israeli)
Creation Year:
1960
Dimensions:
Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Ink,Paper
Condition:
Good.
Gallery Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: 100018731stDibs: G140204243955

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