Moshe Ziffer signed Bronze Sculpture 2/4 friend of Albert Einstein Israel

  
Signed and numbered II/IV, mounted on wood base. Measures approximately: 11" H x 5 7/8" W (base) x 5 7/8 D (base). Moshe Ziffer was born in 1902 in Przemysl, Austria-Hungary. He immigrated to Palestine in 1919. In 1924-33, he studied sculpture in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. Ziffer's stone sculptures are displayed on the campuses of Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 1947-48, Ziffer was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in Sculpture for his design of a wall at Haganah House, Tel Aviv. Ziffer died in 1989 in Tel Aviv. He bequeathed his sculpture garden in Safed to the Safed Municipality and left his home in Tel Aviv and many of his sculptures to Tel Aviv University. Albert Einstein said of Ziffer. But you work with stone and I work with figures.

Einstein described his work as simple and noble as the man who created it. This item is in the category "Art\Art Sculptures". The seller is "lightthinkart" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada.

1. Size: Medium
2. Artist: Moshe Ziffer
3. Style: Abstract
4. Item Height: 11 in
5. Item Width: 5 7/8\
6. Material: Bronze
7. Time Period Produced: 1970-1989
8. Format: Statue
9. Type: Statue
10. Features: Signed, Numbered
11. Item Length: 5 7/8\
12. Placement: Table
13. Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original