Jacques Lipchitz
Lipchitz
Jacques Lipchitz
- 1891
Born on 22 August in Druskieniki (Lithuania)
- 1914-16
Becomes friends with Juan Gris and Picasso. It is through his hands that cubism arrives in sculpture.
- 1924
Acquires French citizenship. Lives in Boulogne-sur-Seine, in a house designed for him by Le Corbusier.
- 1935
Lipchitz’s first major exhibition in New York
- 1941
Fleeing persecution by the Nazis, he emigrates to the United States
- 1954
His MoMA retrospective in New York
- 1958
Becomes an American citizen
- 1965
Is assigned the task of creating a portrait of President John F. Kennedy
- 1972
Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, which coincides with the publication of his autobiography My Life in Sculpture
- 1973
Lipchitz dies on the island of Capri and is buried in Jerusalem
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