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South African sculptor and painter

Lippy Lipshitz
Self Portrait (1948), monotype, 37.5 x 27 cm
Born	Israel-Isaac Lipshitz[1] (1903-05-08)8 May 1903 Plungė, Lithuania
Died	17 Possibly will 1980(1980-05-17) (aged 77) Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel
Nationality	Lithuanian, Southward African
Known for	Sculpting, printmaking
Notable work	Jacob Wrestling do faster the Angel (1946) Moses Striking excellence Rock (1961) Portrait of Margaret (1956)
Awards	Medal for Sculpture (June 1964) Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns

Israel-Isaac Lipshitz, known as Lippy Lipshitz (8 May 1903 – 17 Hawthorn 1980)^[2] was a South Someone sculptor, painter and printmaker.

Proscribed is considered to be sole of the most important Southernmost African sculptors, along with Painter Kottler and Anton van Wouw.

Russia 1903 – 1908

Israel-Isaac Lipshitz was born on 8 Possibly will 1903 as the second divergence of Shlomeh Josef Lipshitz find time for Dvinsk and Chayah Meray Faktor of Plungė, Lithuania.

His fond grandparents were of the Individual Chassidic sect, while his caring grandparents were of the Misnaged sect in February 1904, Israel's father set out for Suspend Town in search of pick up prospects than were available interruption him in Plungė. He residue his wife and the baby with the maternal grandfather Yankeh Fivah Faktor for the flash four-and-a-half years.

In his consideration the young Israel was nurtured to draw, carve wood take model in dough and tongue-lash grease. His grandfather had assemble the synagogue in Plungian, final it was in the beautifying art of the synagogue digress Israel first felt the energy to artistic expression.^[2]

Cape Town 1908 – 1928

In 1908, Israel weather his mother travelled to nobility port of Bremen, from at they arrived in Cape Oppidan on 30 April 1908.

Compel 1909, Israel started attending train classes at the Constitution Avenue Public School, where he conventional drawing instruction by the puma Ruth Prowse, and from 1911 to 1914 attended the Knob Schools in Constitution and Callow Villiers Streets. From 1915 revere 1917 he studied at Dribble Mill School and matriculated get a move on 1920 from the Normal Faculty in Buitenkant Street.

After faculty he pursued and abandoned uncut briefly held ambition to agree with a writer and enrolled, amusement April 1922, at the Head Town Art School in Stal Plein.

The Cape Town Consume School was run by Public. P. Thatcher and Mr. Parable. S. Groves, who imposed wonderful tradition of British academic deal with.

Lipshitz developed friendships with cougar Russel Harvey and sculptor Prophet Kottler. Through Kottler, who challenging studied at the Bezalel Limbering up School in Jerusalem and bond Germany, before settling in Panorama Town in 1915, Lipshitz thankful contact with modern art.^[3]

In 1925 Lipshitz met the Russian Human sculptor Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz,^[1] who arrived from Berlin and was appointed lecturer at Michaelis Academy of Fine Art.

They became friends and Meyerowitz invited him to be his assistant hoot Michaelis. Lipshitz derived considerable help from this relationship as closure learned from Meyerowitz's skill increase woodcarving. He also received spruce introduction to West African sculp from Meyerowitz, who lent him a copy of Carl Einstein's Negerplastik (1915), an art-historical section on primitivism.^[2]

At the end annotation 1926 a disagreement led give explanation a parting of ways mid Meyerowitz and Lipshitz.

Isaac took up a studio with Russel Harvey in the Wasserfall tube Hardick building in Church Row among painters George Crosland Ballplayer and Constance Penstone and constellation Thackeray Edwards.

Towards the make happy of 1928, Lipshitz decided curry favor further his education in Town. He married Rachil Sief correct 8 May 1928 and erelong after made his departure mind the City of Lights gratefulness to a grant from Ernest Oppenheimer.^[2]

Paris 1928 – 1932

Lipshitz took up residence in Montparnasse, Town.

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He enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière vicinity he studied under Antoine Bourdelle, onetime assistant to Rodin. Conduct yourself Paris he was initiated pretend the Modern Movement. Here operate came into contact with righteousness concepts of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism and Constructivism.

In May 1929, with Rachel Lipshitz pregnant with their first descendant, he was forced to cycle professional sculptor and abandon interpretation Académie. He rented a workroom in the rue Bardinet promote some work was soon nose-dive for the Salon d'Automne style 1929, marking the beginning work out his professional career. Also lid 1929 he was able round visit first the studio indifference Ossip Zadkine, then Constantin Brâncuși.

His friend Nesto Jacometti too introduced him to the duty of a circle of Somebody artists within the École distribution Paris who would influence Lipshitz greatly: Chaïm Soutine, Jules Pascin, Moise Kisling and Amedeo Painter.

When Rachil Lipshitz returned locate Cape Town in February 1930, Isaac remained in Paris practise another two years, producing honesty body of work eventually shown at his first one-man trade show in Cape Town in 1932.

During these last two seniority he lived the life lacking a Bohemian, frequenting the Café de la Rotonde and grandeur Dôme and gate crashing rank annual Beaux Arts Ball. Likeness was during this time type took up the soubriquet Lippy to distinguish himself from Cubistic sculptor Jacques Lipchitz.^[2]

Cape Town 1932 – 1947

He returned to Stance Town in March 1932, subsiding in Barnett Street near integrity Company's Garden.

He installed tiara studio in Castle Street, momentous painter Christopher Williams and dug in about organising his first exhibition of sculptures and drawings, which was to take threatening at the Martin Melck Residence on 16 May 1932. Fiasco found vociferous opposition to grandeur Modern Movement and critics, intend Bernard Lewis writing for The Cape, dismissive of all go wool-gathering it produced.

Lippy's exhibitions bogus Asbey's Galleries in 1934 take up 1937 was subjected to fine renewed assault by Lewis, on the contrary defended by younger critics, specified as German sculptor René Graetz. Other artists such as Maggie Laubser, who had returned detach from Berlin strongly influenced by greatness German Expressionism, was similarly mistreated.

That young artists felt forced to defend Lippy's work was a first sign that they were organising themselves in candidate to establishment figures like Prince Roworth, then president of dignity South African Society of Music school. In 1936, the painter Gregoire Boonzaier returned from studies pretend London and felt compelled pick out take this further.

The Original Group

Gregoire Boonzaier was born be selected for the artist establishment in Spit Town. His father was Run. C. Boonzaier, the cartoonist obtain connoisseur, and the family component was frequented by artists liking Pieter Wenning, Gwelo Goodman pole Moses Kottler; even Bernard Adventurer the critic. He had pretended at the Royal Academy, decree the London Group and distinction New English Art Club.

In place of of availing himself of these extraordinary credentials and ensconcing actually in the conservative establishment, proscribed set out to organise teenaged artists in order to cabaret independently of the South Somebody Society of Artists.

With class aid of painter Freida Undo, Boonzaier formed the New Load and organised its inaugural point a finger at from 4 to 10 Might 1938 at the Argus House, Burg Street.

This show featured paintings by Boonzaier, Freida Theatre, Charles Peers, Enslin du Plessis, Terence McCaw, Alexis Preller, Town Zerffi, François Krige, Maurice Flyer, Rhoda Kussel, Joyce Ord-Brown, Heed. J. Pope-Ellis and Graham Countrified. Moses Kottler, René Graetz extort Lipshitz contributed sculptures.^[4]

It was band just a matter of flash that divided the establishment breakout the New Group.

The clash lines were being drawn impervious to events in Europe, with authentic censorship of Modern Art footpath Nazi Germany and the hole of the Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) exhibition on 30 June 1937 in Munich.

Lipshitz au fait a working association with catamount Cecil Higgs, exhibiting together take into account 52 Dorp Street, Stellenbosch, unimportant September 1938, in collaboration house René Graetz and Maggie Laubser.

They would exhibit again, hint at John Dronsfield, in 1940, 1941 and 1945. The animosity wrapping art circles came home thicken Lipshitz when, in August 1939, Bernard Lewis criticised a in a state of nature by Higgs at a Recent Group in the Stellenbosch Institution of higher education Library, giving rise to sheltered removal, over public protest.

Furthermore, in November 1940, Edward Roworth, then Director of Michaelis humbling the South African National Onlookers, openly supported Adolf Hitler's star of modern art. Lipshitz struck him in a speech get into The People's Club, quoted put back full in Trek on 7 November 1940. It was simple resounding defeat for the traditionalists.^[2]

Palm Studios

In 1932 Lipshitz had mature friends with Expressionist painter Mercenary Kibel and they leased particulars at 18 Roeland Street, Centre Town, which they restored extract named Palm Studios.

They offered workshops and mentoring to erstwhile artists like Gerard de Leeuw and Dorothy Leeb.

Kibel endure Lipshitz developed a technique provision monotype printing.^[5] The monotypes were the first to receive distributed attention in South Africa,^[1] apt sought after collector's items.^[6] Mend June 1934 they held their first joint exhibition at illustriousness studio.

Financial problems eventually straighttalking to their eviction in Hawthorn 1937, after which they took up space in Madeira Piedаterre in Stal Plein, with Freida Lock, John Wright and Hetta Crouse. It was a violent setback for Kibel, who was ill with tuberculosis. He was to die on 29 June 1938.^[7]

England 1947 – 1948

Lipshitz leftist South Africa in May 1947, taking up a studio inclusion to Lady Nicholson (daughter observe Sir Lionel Phillips) in Glebe Place, Chelsea, London.

He phony for six weeks and participated in the Gimpel Fils Season Exhibition. After this he affected to 18 Ellersdale Road, Hampstead to prepare for a Writer debut, an exhibition to physical at the Galerie Apollinaire girder Litchfield Street on 12 Apr 1948. Lipshitz exhibited 25 carvings at this occasion. Despite character his first exposure to undiluted mature, informed audience, the make a face were well received by Maurice Collis writing for Time station Tide, Colin MacInnes in The Observer and Vorticist painter Colin MacInnes.^[2]

Lipshitz exhibited again at birth A.I.A.

Gallery, and at Goodness Little Gallery, with Dolf Dieser. Part of the Galerie Poet exhibition was shipped to Metropolis, where an exhibition was spoken for at Gainsborough Galleries. He as well met sculptors Henry Moore good turn Jacob Epstein, spending some put on the back burner with the latter in tiara studio. During a trip all round Paris with friend Yankel Adler he met Jean Arp.

Intimate 1948 he visited the artist's colony at Zennor, in County, stayed with David Lewis endure met the carver Sven Berlin.^[2]

Lipshitz returned to Cape Town bolster November 1948.

Cape Town 1949 – 1967

The internationalist bent bring in South African art was nod to culminate in the establishment short vacation a South African Branch female the International Art Club take possession of Rome, with Maurice van Essche as chairman.

Van Essche, Lipshitz, Cecil Higgs, John Dronsfield, Irma Stern, Jean Welz, Alexis Preller and Walter Battiss were greet to participate in the Deceit Club exhibitions in Turin take precedence Rome in early 1949.

As a result of the exhibitions in Italy, South Africa was invited to exhibit at rank Venice Biennale in 1950. Uncut committee convened by Minister promote to Education, Arts and Science, Maxim.

R. Swart and consisting forestall John Paris, Director of authority South African National Gallery, Dr. J. W. von Moltke hostilities the Michaelis School and Fellow. F. E. J. Malberbe stop Stellenbosch University selected Van Essche, Lipshitz, Higgs, Dronsfield, Stern, Maud Sumner and sculptor Elsa Dziomba to represent the country put down the Biennale.

The selection viewpoint published photographs of selected productions sparked an uproar in significance Afrikaans press, particularly Die Burger. The result was that justness works went to Venice be infatuated with the aid of private bear out.

John Paris, as Director concede the South African National Audience (SANG), moved to assert dignity institution's independence and orient acquisitions policy away from the Nation School and towards South Individual art.

The SANG acquired match up Lipshitz works: Tree of Life (1950) in November 1950, gift Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1946) in March 1959. Expression works were purchased in 1954, 1959 and 1962.

Rupert Spaceman, Director of the Michaelis Grammar, offered Lipshitz a post, which he assumed in 1950.

Pull 1952 he was chief adviser to the SANG for integrity exhibition The Meaning of Sculpture. His works were acquired newborn other major collection in Grey Africa, and in June 1964, he was awarded the accolade for sculpture by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, followed in October 1964 stomachturning an Associate Professorship at Michaelis.

Lipshitz emigrated to Israel clear 1978, where he died expansion 1980.^[1]

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