Zeev Ben-Zvi

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Zeev Ben-Zvi (1904–1952) was a Polish-Israeli sculptor who influenced many artists. He was born Beniamin Kujawski in Ryki, Congress Poland, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1923 he moved to Mandatory Palestine and studied at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem (1923–1924). He later taught sculpture at Bezalel when the New Bezalel School opened (1926–1927). He traveled to Paris in 1937 and to London (1937–1938), developing a cubist-influenced style that featured portrait heads in beaten copper and plaster. In 1947 he created the monument "In Memory of the Children of the Diaspora" in Mishmar Haemek. He received posthumous awards in 1953: the Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture and the Israel Prize.