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Danziger, (Max Wilhelm) Itzhak
(b Berlin, 26 June 1916; d nr Ramla, Israel, 11 July 1977). Israeli sculptor of German birth. His family went to Palestine in 1923, settling in Jerusalem. After attending schools both there and in England, he studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1934–7), and while there he regularly visited the British Museum to see the sculptures from Assyria, Egypt, Africa and India. After his return to Palestine in 1938, he produced his first important work, Nimrod (1939; Jerusalem, Israel Mus.; see JEWISH ART, fig. 24), which showed the influence of ancient sculpture. At the end of 1945 he travelled to Paris and until 1948 divided his time between Paris, Tel Aviv and London. During this time he worked as Ossip Zadkine’s assistant in Paris and also met Brancusi there in 1946. From 1948 to 1955 he lived in London, where he became acquainted with Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi.
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