Background
Lipshits, Iakov was born on August 22, 1891 in Druskieniki, Lithuania. Son of a businessman.
Lipshits, Iakov was born on August 22, 1891 in Druskieniki, Lithuania. Son of a businessman.
Educated in
Bialystok and Wil’no, 1902-1909. Moved to Paris to study art, 1909, lived in Montparnasse. Became a prominent member of the modernist arts movement before World War I. His sculpture Man with a Guitar created a sensation, 1916.
In the 1920s and 1930s, became one of the most famous modernist sculptors in the world. Spent the World War II years in the USA. Returned to France, 1946-1947. From 1948, permanently settled in the USA.