Carmen Herrera
Carmen Herrera ( born May 31, 1915 in Havana, Cuba) is an American painter of concrete art.
Life
Herrera is the daughter of two journalists who received early drawing lessons. At fifteen, she was sent for further training for a year to Paris. After finishing high school in Havana, she studied architecture at first. She learned the German -born American Jesse Loewenthal and married him. In 1939, she moved with Loewenthal to New York. There she attended the Art Academy Art Students League of New York and studied painting.
In New York, she met artist we know Wifredo Lam and Barnett Newman and found early on to a style of abstract geometry, but was only completed in Paris. There Herrera lived with her husband in 1948 to 1954. She learned there artists such as Yves Klein, and placed among other things, at the Salon des Nouvelles Réalités. Herrera did not return until 1963, after stopping in Havana to New York. Since the 1960s, echoes are received at architecture in their works of art from her again. However, they remained until relatively unknown in their old age.
In 1998, she had at the Museo del Barrio in New York to review the exhibition and witnessed first sales of their works.
Herrera lives and works in New York. At international level, made her first retrospective in Europe for attention. In this exhibition at the Museum Palatinate Gallery Kaiserslautern were from January 23 to May 2, 2010 a total of 55 works from the period 1948-2007 to see from her.
The Tate Gallery in London and the MoMA ( Museum of Modern Art ) in New York have already paid five -figure sums in U.S. dollars for your exhibits. Carmen Herrera holds her work stylistically as easy as possible and reduced to a few essential areas of color.