Menashe Kadishman

Kadishman was born in the British Mandate Palestine in 1932. His father, who was a pioneer, died when Kadishman was 15 years old. He left school to help his mother with housework and to earn money.

In 1959 Kadishman went to London to study at St Martin’s School of Art.

In 1965 he married Tamara Alferoff, a British psychotherapist, and they had two children, Ben and Maya. In 1972, they separated and he returned to Israel.

Kadishman was best known for his repeated rendering of a sheep’s head, at once a symbol of the spirit of the pioneers who built the modern state of Israel and a reference to the biblical sacrifice of Ishac.

On May 8, 2015 Kadishman died, he was 82 years old.