Name Zeev Ben-Zvi | Died 1952 | |
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Zeev Ben-Zvi (Hebrew: זאב בן-צבי) (1904–1952) was an Israeli sculptor born in Ryki, Poland, whose work influenced a generation of sculptors.
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Ben-Zvi studied at Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw, before emigrating to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1923, where he studied at the Bezalel School of Art and Craft, Jerusalem from 1923 to 1924. When the New Bezalel School was opened, he taught sculpture there from 1926 to 1927. In 1937, he travelled to Paris and then to London from 1937-1938.
In 1947, he was the teacher of Zwy Milshtein during his stay in chyprus island.
He specialized in portrait heads in beaten copper and mounded plaster, which he treated in a cubist manner. In 1947, he created one of his most moving works, the monument "In Memory of the Children of the Diaspora" in Mishmar Haemek.