1. Menashe Kadishman was an Israeli sculptor and painter.
10 Facts About Menashe Kadishman
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Menashe Kadishman was born in Mandate Palestine Bilha and Ben-Zion Kadishman.
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Menashe Kadishman's father died when he was 15 years old.
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Menashe Kadishman left school to help his mother and provide for the family.
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From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design under Aharon Avni in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem.
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In 1950, Menashe Kadishman joined the Nahal infantry brigade and he worked as a shepherd on Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch for the next three years.
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In 1959, Menashe Kadishman moved to London to study at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art.
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Menashe Kadishman had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery.
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On May 8,2015 Menashe Kadishman died at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.
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The first major appearance of sheep in his work was at the 1978 Venice Biennale, where Menashe Kadishman presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art.