Birth of the Muses, bronze, 1944-1950. In memory of Jerome Wiesner; in the permanent collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jacques Lipchitz (August 22, 1891 - May 16, 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1040 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1040 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Jerome Wiesner (Jerome Bert Wiesner) (May 30, 1915-October 21, 1994) was an educator, a science advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913 Cubist house in Prague Cubism is an important and influential art movement; it was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century. ...

Of Jewish origin, he was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz in Druskininkai, Lithuania. He studied engineering before moving to Paris in 1909 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. Jews (Hebrew: יהודים, Yehudim) are followers of Judaism or, more generally, members of the Jewish people (also known as the Jewish nation, or the Children of Israel), an ethno-religious group descended from the ancient Israelites and converts who joined their religion. ... Druskininkai is a spa town on Neman River in Lithuania, close to the borders to Belarus and Poland. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... École des Beaux-Arts (IPA ) refers to several art schools in France. ... The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France. ...

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 and where his friend, Amedeo Modigliani, painted "The Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz and His Wife Berthe Lipchitz." Montmartre seen from the centre Georges Pompidou (1897), a painting by Camille Pissarro of the boulevard that led to Montmartre as seen from his hotel room. ... The Montparnasse Tower, which at 209m was the tallest building in Western Europe when it was built. ... The Sunblind, 1914, Tate Gallery. ... Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. ... Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was a Jewish Italian painter and sculptor. ...

Living in this environment, Lipchitz soon began to create Cubist sculptures. In 1912 he exhibited at the Salon National des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d'Automne with his first one-man show held at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L’Effort Moderne in Paris in 1920. In 1922 he was commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania for five bas-reliefs. Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913 Cubist house in Prague Cubism is an important and influential art movement; it was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... First Salon dAutomne Catalog In 1903, the first Salon dAutomne (Fall Salon) was organized as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Barnes Foundation is a museum situated in Merino Station, one of the suburbs of Philadelphia in the United States. ... Merion is a community in Pennsylvania state of the United States. ...

With artistic innovation at its height, in the 1920s he experimented with abstract forms he called transparent sculptures. Later he developed a more dynamic style, which he applied with telling effect to bronze figure and animal compositions. Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast-metal sculpture of bronze is often called a bronze. ...

With the German occupation of France during World War II, and the deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps, Jacques Lipchitz had to flee France. With the assistance of the American journalist Varian Fry in Marseille, he escaped the Nazi regime and went to the United States. There, he eventually settled in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. In 1954 a Lipchitz retrospective traveled from The Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and The Cleveland Museum of Art. In 1959, his series of small bronzes "To the Limit of the Possible" was shown at Fine Arts Associates in New York. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... National Socialism redirects here. ... Majdanek - crematorium Extermination camp (German Vernichtungslager) was the term applied to a group of death camps set up by Nazi Germany during World War II for the express purpose of killing the Jews of Europe, although members of some other groups whom the Nazis wished to exterminate, such as Roma... Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907–September 13, 1967) was a New York-born American journalist who ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape the Nazis. ... City motto: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis. ... Hastings-on-Hudson is a village located in Westchester County, New York. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... General Electric GE90-115B fanblade, on display at MOMA. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. ... One of the most celebrated art museums in the country, the Walker Art Center is known for commissioning and presenting innovative contemporary art; fostering the cross-pollination of the visual, performing, and media arts; and engaging diverse audiences in the excitement of the creative process. ... Nickname: City of Lakes Motto: En Avant Official website: http://www. ...

Beginning in 1963 he returned to Europe where he worked for several months of each year in Pietrasanta, Italy. In 1972 his autobiography was published on the occasion of an exhibition of his sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ... Pietrasanta is a town on the coast of northern Tuscany in Italy. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... There is also the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), located in Manhattan. ...

Jacques Lipchitz died in Capri, Italy. His body was flown to Jerusalem for burial. Overlooking Capri harbor from the rotunda in Villa San Michele. ... Jerusalem (; Hebrew: Yerushalayim; Arabic: al-Quds; Greek Ιεροσόλυμα) is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meters. ...

Selected works:

• "Acrobat on Horseback" - (1914)
• "Bather" - (1916-17)
• "Sailor with Guitar" - 1917
• "Bather, bronze" - 1923-25
• "Reclining Nude with Guitar" - (1928), a prime example of Cubism
• "Dancer with Veil" - (1928)
• "Dancer" - (1929)
• "Bull and Condor" - (1932)
• "Bust of a Woman" - (1932)
• "David and Goliath" - (1933)
• "Embracing Figures" - (1941)
• "Prometheus Strangling the Vulture" - (1944)
• "Rescue II"- (1947)
• "Mother and Child" - (1949)
• "Bellerophon Taming Pegasus: Large Version" - (1964-66)
• "Peace on Earth" - (1967-1969)

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In 2006, a play about Jacques Lipchitz, "All Grace," by Chris Leyva (a third-year U of Iowa MFA student) premiered at the Iowa New Play Festival, in a production directed by Willie Barbour. The play deals with Lipchitz getting commissioned to create a sculpture of the Virgin Mary for a Catholic church and sanitorium in the Alps. "All Grace" received generally favorable notices.