Jacques Lipchitz (1891 - 1973)
Jacques Lipchitz (August 22 [ O.S. August 10] 1891 [1] – May 16, 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Jacques Lipchitz was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz , in a Litvak family, son of a building contractor in Druskininkai , Lithuania , then within the Russian Empire . At first, under the influence of his father, he studied engineering, but soon after, supported by his mother he moved to Paris (1909) to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian . It was there, in the artistic communities of Montmartre and Montparnasse , that he joined a group of artists that included Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso as well as where his friend, Amedeo Modigliani , painted Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz . Living in this environment, Lipchitz soon began to create Cubist sculpture . In 1912 he exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d'Automne with his first solo show held at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L’Effort Moderne in Paris in 1920. In 1922 he was ...
