Yitzhak Danziger was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" group.
16 Facts About Yitzhak Danziger
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Yitzhak Danziger met Marion Edie at the Slade and they later married and had a son, Jeremy.
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Yitzhak Danziger's work was influenced by his visits to the British Museum, the Anthropological Museum and the art from Ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, India and Oceania and Africa.
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Yitzhak Danziger believed that the only option for the artist was to adhere to nature, to return to the landscape.
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Yitzhak Danziger was fascinated by the relationship between man and animal, and between a world of order and disorder.
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Yitzhak Danziger derived new methods using the interdisciplinary approach, combining the fields of ecology, geography, anthropology, and archaeology.
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Yitzhak Danziger returned to Palestine and set up a studio at Tel Aviv in 1937.
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem which had commissioned Yitzhak Danziger's statue was not happy with the result and religious circles made strong protests.
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In 1946 Yitzhak Danziger went to Grande Chaumiere in the south of France to work in the local sandstone, from which he sculpted large-scale figures and heads.
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Yitzhak Danziger was involved with two schools: the Cass Institute near Whitechapel and he participated in two courses in the design of gardens and landscape at the School of Architecture Association.
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Yitzhak Danziger had teaching roles at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
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Yitzhak Danziger enjoyed running workshops at the artists' village at Ein Hod, which was an integral part of his vision as an artist.
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Yitzhak Danziger is considered to be one of Israel's most important sculptors.
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Yitzhak Danziger was a mentor and a model of artistic practice.
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Yitzhak Danziger is best known for his sculptures of figures, including "Head of a Man".
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Yitzhak Danziger's son, Jeremy Danziger, was an artist, sculptor and university lecturer.