Ossip Zadkine and Belgium

Sixty years after his death, KMSKA pays tribute to sculptor Ossip Zadkine (Vitebsk 1888 - Paris 1967). Although Zadkine gained world fame when living in the Paris of the roaring twenties, his career found an early foothold in Belgium. ‘Les Belges étaient mes premiers amateurs,’ he wrote himself. In 1933 he got his first retrospective not in France, but in Brussels, at the Palace of Fine Arts (now BOZAR). It was an Antwerp ship owner of CMB who brought his work back to Europe from New York after WWII. The Jewish artist had sought a safer home there during the war. After his participation in th…