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Yitzhak Danziger, Israeli sculptor born in Berlin in 1916. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" (New Horizons) group.
Danziger's family immigrated to then Mandate Palestine in 1923 and settled in Jerusalem. Between 1934–37 Danziger studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He was influenced by his visits to the British Museum, the Anthropological Museum and the art from Ancient Egypt, Assyria,Babylon, Persia, India, Oceania and Africa. These would later on play an important role in his sculptures.
He returned to Palestine and set up a studio at Tel Aviv in 1937.
In 1958 was elected member of the Public Council for Culture and the Arts. In 1968 was appointed Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion Institute, Haifa. In 1971 was appointed artistic adviser to the Negev University Campus. In 1972 was appointed member of the Board of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture.
In 1977 he was killed in a road accident near Ramla, on his way to Jerusalem.

Education

1923-25 Private school for progressive education, run by Deborah Calin
1925 Bezalel School, remedial lessons under the private tutelage of Zohara Schatz
1926-29 Hebrew Gymnasium in the Bukharian quarter and later in Rehavia, Jerusalem
1930-32 Bible and history, Gymnasia Herzlia
1932-33 Reali School, Haifa
1933-34 Ottershaw College, Surrey, outside London, England
1934-37 Sculpture with sculptor Gerrard, Slade School of Fine Arts, University of London, England
1951-52 Garden landscaping, School of the Architecture Association (A.A.), London, England

Teaching

1955 Three-dimensional design, Faculty of Architecture at the Technion, Haifa

Awards And Prizes

1946 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture
1958 Kiryat Ono Monument Prize
1968 Prize for Sculpture, Ministry of Education and Culture
1969 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2005 Voted the 193rd greatest Israeli Artist of all time by Israeli News Website "Ynet"
1958 Milo Club Prize