Isaac Witkin

Place: Johannesburg

Born: 1936

Death: 2006

Biography:

Isaac Witkin was an internationally renowned modern sculptor born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He entered Saint Martin's School of Art in London in 1957 and studied under Sir Anthony Caro, alongside artists including Phillip King, William G. Tucker, David Annesley, and Michael Bolus. Witkin helped create a new style of sculpture which led to the New Generation of sculptors and their innovating abstract forms of modern sculpture reaching and changing the art world. Witkin's abstract works of usually brightly colored fiberglass or wood were noted for their 'witty, Pop-Art look'.