12 Facts About Shelomo Selinger

Shelomo Selinger was born on 31 May 1928 and is a sculptor and artist living and working in Paris since 1956.

Shelomo Selinger received both a traditional Jewish upbringing and a Polish public school education.

Three months later his father was murdered and Shelomo Selinger remained alone in the camp.

Shelomo Selinger was discovered, still breathing, on a stack of dead bodies when the Terezin camp was liberated in 1945 by the Red Army.

Shelomo Selinger was then one of the founders of the Kabri kibbutz in the Galilee, where in 1951 he met his future wife, Ruth Shapirovsky, who came to the kibbutz as a volunteer worker with her Haifa high school class.

At that time Shelomo Selinger began to fill in the gaps in his memory and to sculpt.

In 1955 Shelomo Selinger was awarded the Norman Prize of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.

Too poor to buy his own art materials, Shelomo Selinger hunted for stone blocks in the slum belt of Paris and returned with a very dense and hard bloc of granite capable of capturing and reflecting light.

In 1973 Shelomo Selinger was named Chevalier to the prestigious French Legion of Honour by President Francois Mitterrand.

Currently living in Paris with his wife, Shelomo Selinger contributes to work in marble, granite, stone and wood.

Shelomo Selinger's sculptures comprise today more than 800 works in all possible materials and sizes, granite, red granite, sandstone, marble, bronze, oak, blackwood, cherry wood, ash tree or beech.

Shelomo Selinger's works were exhibited in about forty museums and galleries all over the world.