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Sculptor Gideon Graetz was born in Tel Aviv. During Israel’s War of Independence, he served in the Palmach. In the 1950s, Graetz attended the Accademia della Belle Arti in Florence and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Since moving to Fiesole, Italy, where he has a studio and foundry, Graetz has exhibited his work in Europe, Australia and the United States. The public spaces of Florence became the setting for his sculpture in the 1998 show, “Sculture in citta.” His other public sculpture is located in Europe, the United States and Israel.

The first of the series — Composition in Stainless Steel #1 — is displayed at the Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo World Headquarters in Purchase, New York. The piece Composition in Stainless Steel #14 comprises two flame-like arms standing on a cylindrical base. It is on permanent loan to the Technion by the artist, in memory of his late father Heinz R. Graetz, “who was one of the pioneers of Israeli navigation and who cherished the State of Israel and labored so greatly on its behalf.” On permanent loan by the artist