Moshe Ziffer
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Moshe Ziffer, (1902-1989) was a modern Israeli artist and sculptor.
Ziffer was born 24 April 1902 in Przemysl, Austro-Hungary. He immigrated into Eretz-Israel in 1919.
Between 1924-33 he studied sculpture in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. He created the stone sculptures at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Ziffer bequeathed his sculpture garden in Safed to the Safed Municipality. He bequeathed his house in Tel Aviv and many of his sculptures to Tel Aviv University which he did not attend.
Ziffer died 9 April 1989 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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[edit] Prizes
- 1947-48 Dizengoff Prize; for design of a wall in Hagana House, Tel Aviv.
[edit] Environmental Sculptures
- 1938, "Unknown Pioneer", at New York International Fair,
- Memorial in honour of the breakthrough at the Burma Road, Hulda,
- Memorial in honour of the fighters of the Givati regiment and members of Kibbutz Nitzanim who defended and died in the battle on Nitzanim in the Israeli War of Independence, 1948, - "nursing wounded soldiers"
- Sculpture Garden, Safed;
- 1958, "Lot's Wife", at Brussels International Exhibition.
[edit] Portrait busts of outstanding pesonalities
Professor Albert Einstein, David Ben Gurion and Professor Chaim Weizmann.
[edit] Quotations
Albert Einstein punningly said of Ziffer:
- "Du bist ein Ziffer und ich bin Ein stein aber du arbeitest mit stein und ich arbeite mit ziffern."
- (Translation: "You are a figure(Ziffer - figure, digit, number) and I am a stone (ein stein) but you work with stone and I work with figures.")
Einstein also said:
- "His work is simple and noble as the man who created it."
[edit] Collections and Museums
Ziffer's work is represented in the following Collections and Museums:
[edit] See also
[edit] Further reading
Ziffer, Moshe; with Jonel Jianou, Arted, Paris, France ISBN 2-85067-056-1
Tal, Miriam (text). - Ziffer Scuplture Garden Artists Colony Safad, United Artists, Tel-Aviv, 1972.
