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1926 Kalisz, Poland - 1973 Passy, France. Known for: Reconceptualized sculpture, surrealism, pop art, female issues.
SourAlina Szapocznikow and sometimes called Szaposznikow, was a Polish sculptor and Holocaust survivor. She produced casts of her and her son's body. She worked mainly in bronze and stone and her... Read full biography
SourAlina Szapocznikow and sometimes called Szaposznikow, was a Polish sculptor and Holocaust survivor. She produced casts of her and her son's body. She worked mainly in bronze and stone and her provocative work recalled genres such as surrealism, nouveau realism, and pop art. During World War II... Read full biography
SourAlina Szapocznikow and sometimes called Szaposznikow, was a Polish sculptor and Holocaust survivor. She produced casts of her and her son's body. She worked mainly in bronze and stone and her provocative work recalled genres such as surrealism, nouveau realism, and pop art. During World War II she was imprisoned in the Pabianice and Lódz Ghettos and in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt Nazi concentration camps. Szapocznikow was born in Kalisz in 1926 to a Jewish family. Her father... Read full biography
SourAlina Szapocznikow and sometimes called Szaposznikow, was a Polish sculptor and Holocaust survivor. She produced casts of her and her son's body. She worked mainly in bronze and stone and her provocative work recalled genres such as surrealism, nouveau realism, and pop art. During World War II she was imprisoned in the Pabianice and Lódz Ghettos and in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt Nazi concentration camps. Szapocznikow was born in Kalisz in 1926 to a Jewish family. Her father died in 1938. In February 1940, Szapocznikow's family was interned in the Pabianice ghetto. While interned, Szapocznikow and her mother worked as a nurse's first in Pabianice ghetto, and later in the Lódz ghetto where the family was transferred in... Read full biography
SourAlina Szapocznikow and sometimes called Szaposznikow, was a Polish sculptor and Holocaust survivor. She produced casts of her and her son's body. She worked mainly in bronze and stone and her provocative work recalled genres such as surrealism, nouveau realism, and pop art. During World War II she was imprisoned in the Pabianice and Lódz Ghettos and in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt Nazi concentration camps. Szapocznikow was born in Kalisz in 1926 to a Jewish family. Her father died in 1938. In February 1940, Szapocznikow's family was interned in the Pabianice ghetto. While interned, Szapocznikow and her mother worked as a nurse's first in Pabianice ghetto, and later in the Lódz ghetto where the family was transferred in May 1942. During this period she endured the premature death of her father from tuberculosis in 1938.... Read full biography
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Keywords (18)
Art Method
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Photography as Fine Art
Art Media
- •Bronze
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Polyurethane, Polystyrene
- •Resin
- •Stone and/or Limestone
Art Style
- •Classical Realist
- •Pop Art, Popular Culture
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Body Parts
- •Feminist Themes, Women's Equality, Feminism
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
Added Description
- •Holocaust Survivor
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Jewish
- •Polish
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York