Shelomo Selinger
Shlomo Selinger (or: Shelomo Selinger ) ( born May 31, 1928 in Jaworzno, Poland) is an Israeli- French sculptor.
Life
Youth
Shlomo Selinger was born in a Jewish family in the Polish town of Jaworzno Szczakowa near Auschwitz. He received a traditional Jewish education, but did not attend religious school. In 1943 he and his father were deported to the ghetto Krenau. After the premature death of his father Shlomo remained alone.
During the Holocaust Selinger lost his mother and his two sisters. He was successively in the camps septic Brück, Groeditz, market town, five ponds, Gross-Rosen, Flossenbiirg, Dresden, Leitmeritz and finally came to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Twice he took part in a death march. In 1945, he was found by a military doctor of the Red Army, who found a weak breathing. This Jewish officer took him to a field hospital and saved his life so. During the next seven years Selinger was suffering from amnesia and could remember nothing that his ordeal was concerned.
Israel
In 1946, Selinger with the help of the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in the French port town of La Ciotat on board the " Tel Hai ". Secretly headed a group of young survivors from Germany, Belgium and France, the ship towards Palestine. The ship was boarded by the British Navy and brought to Haifa. Selinger came to the camp Atlit. After his release he went to Kibbutz Beit - Haarava. After its destruction during the Palestine War Selinger helped build the kibbutz Kabri in Galilee. In 1951, he met Ruth Shapirovsky from Haifa, whom he married in 1954. The year before, he had begun work as a sculptor, and this has also to do with the fact that ceased his memory.
Paris
In 1955 Selinger the price of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. The following year, the couple decided to go to Paris. From 1955 to 1958 Selinger studied sculpture at Marcel Gimond in the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts. From Gimond Selinger learned the classic design in clay. But Selinger also continued his work begun in Israel continues on stone. Too poor to buy blocks of stone, Selinger was looking for his stuff in Paris. His favorite stone was granite. In the studio of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi, he also learned the red sandstone from the Vosges know. Selinger spent three years at the Ecole des Beaux -Arts. In his own words he has most in the museums of Paris and in the studios of the sculptor Ossip Zadkine, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti and Joseph Constantinovsky (known as Joseph Constant ) learned.
1960 seven images by Shlomo Selinger issued at the Jewish Museum in New York. Official recognition came in 1973 when he won the first prize in the competition for a memorial in the former transit camp Drancy. 1993 Selinger was appointed by French President Francois Mitterrand, a Knight of the Legion of Honour, since 2006 he is an officer of the Legion of Honour. Selinger has the Israeli and French citizenship.
Gallery
Monument aux Juste parmi les Nations, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
La Tauromachie, Le Bouscat, Bordeaux
Sculptures in Tefen sculpture garden, Israel
Moïse ou la victoire de la lumière, Arandjelovac
L'esprit de la matière N ° 2, Wissembourg
Cinq musiciens, Hayange
Gynaecology, Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Le prophète Elie, Carmel, Haifa, Israel
L'esprit de la matière N ° 1, Saint- Avold
Le regard, Tarbes, Hautes -Pyrenees
L' arbre de vie (wood) and La danse (China ink)
Love 1982/2010, St. Wendel, the street sculptures
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- Israeli sculptor
- French sculptor
- Member of the Legion of Honour ( Officer )
- Prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto
- Prisoner in a concentration camp Gross-Rosen
- Prisoner in Flossenbiirg
- Born in 1928
- Man