Editing Ossip Zadkine (section)

== Career ==
[[File:Zonder titel PK-F-EAA.6791.jpg|thumb|Zadkine with his sculpture]]
In 1921 he obtained French citizenship.<ref name=":0">[http://biography.yourdictionary.com/ossip-joselyn-zadkine Ossip Joselyn Zadkine Facts], YourDictionary</ref> Zadkine served as a stretcher-bearer in the French Army during World War I, and was wounded in action. He spent World War II in the US. His best-known work is probably the sculpture ''[[The Destroyed City]]'' (1951–1953), representing a man without a heart, a memorial to [[Rotterdam Blitz|the destruction of the center of the Dutch city of Rotterdam in 1940]] by the Nazi-German [[Luftwaffe]].<ref name="Age">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FtsQAAAAIBAJ&pg=4848,5178621&dq=ossip-zadkine&hl=en|title=Sculptor Dies|date=27 November 1967|newspaper=[[The Age]]|access-date=20 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115104203/http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=FtsQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YpMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4848,5178621&dq=ossip-zadkine&hl=en|archive-date=15 January 2013}}</ref>

He taught sculpture classes at [[Académie de la Grande Chaumière]] until 1958, students of his included artists Geula Dagan (1925–2008), [[Gunnar Aagaard Andersen]] and [[Genevieve Pezet]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hauer|first=Caroline|date=20 March 2019|title=Paris: Le Messager, une oeuvre monumentale d'Ossip Zadkine – Quai d'Orsay – VIIème|url=https://www.parisladouce.com/2019/03/paris-le-messager-une-oeuvre.html|access-date=12 June 2020|website=Paris la Douce|language=fr}}</ref>