Moshe Ziffer (; 24 April 1902 – 9 April 1989) was an Israeli artist and Sculpture.
Biography
Moshe Ziffer was born in 1902 in Przemyśl,
Austria-Hungary. He
aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1919. In 1924–33, he studied sculpture in
Vienna,
Berlin and
Paris. Stone sculptures by Ziffer are on display at the campuses of Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ziffer bequeathed his sculpture garden in
Safed to the Safed Municipality. He left his home in
Tel Aviv and many of his sculptures to Tel Aviv University.
[ Ziffer House Archives]
Ziffer died in 1989 in Tel Aviv.
Awards and recognition
Albert Einstein said of Ziffer:"
Du bist ein Ziffer und ich bin Ein stein aber du arbeitest mit stein und ich arbeite mit ziffern" ("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 described his work as "simple and noble as the man who created it."
In 1947–48, Ziffer was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in Sculpture,
Environmental sculptures
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1938, "Unknown Pioneer", at New York International Fair
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Memorial in honour of the breakthrough at the Burma Road, Hulda
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Memorial in honour of the fighters of the Givati Brigade and members of Kibbutz Nitzanim killed in the 1947–1949 Palestine war,
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Sculpture Garden, Safed
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1958, "Lot's Wife", Brussels International Exhibition
Portrait busts
Ziffer sculpted busts of Albert Einstein,
David Ben-Gurion and
Chaim Weizmann.
Further reading
Ziffer, Moshe; with Jonel Jianou, Arted, Paris, France
Tal, Miriam (text).—Ziffer Sculpture Garden Artists Colony Safad,
United Artists, Tel Aviv, 1972.
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