Baruch Sakstier Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1942 -

Talking to Baruch Saktsier is like a journey through a number of stations. First stop is the almost forgotten Eastern European Yidish world, which so profoundly became an indispensable part of Baruch’s identity; then communist Russia and finally to Israel, where Baruch has been living since 1972.

eminiscing over his parents and his childhood, Baruch sheds the years and becomes the impish, little boy who instead of going to school played hooky and secretly stayed home to sculpt out of clay, who would frown when his dad would “help” him with his sculpture, and who wanted to become a pantomime as well as a sculptor.



Aware of the stiff competition to the Repin Academy of Art, in St. Petersburg, which every applicant faced, Baruch realized that being a Jew from Moldova was not going to help his chances. Nonetheless young Baruch was determined more than ever to leave Kisheniov and come to St. Petersburg in order to absorb the beauty and the culture this city.



Baruch’s talent was impressive and even being Jewish in communist Russia did not stop him from being admitted.