biography
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Lipchitz, Jacques
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originally Chaim Jacob Lipchitz
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pronunciation:
[lipshitz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1891–1973)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Druskininkai, S Lithuania. He studied engineering, then moved to Paris (1909–11), where he started producing Cubist sculpture in 1914. In the 1920s he experimented with abstract forms he called ‘transparent sculptures’. Later he developed a more dynamic style which he applied with telling effect to bronze figure and animal compositions. He emigrated to the USA in 1941, by which time he had established an international reputation, and lived in Italy from 1963. |
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