Hedda Sterne
Hedda Sterne (* August 4, 1910 in Bucharest as Hedwig Lindenberg, † April 8, 2011 in New York City ) was an American artist of Jewish- Romanian origin.
Life
Hedwig's parents were Simon Lindenberg († 1919), a school teacher of languages , and Eugenie born Wexler. Her older brother Edouard Lindenberg later became a well-known conductor in Paris. Star grew up with artistic talent and came up with Surrealism in contact by a family friend, Victor Brauner. Star has been informed by the age of 11 at home. In 1927 she obtained a university entrance qualification at age 17, after which she attended art classes in Vienna, before she studied philosophy and art history began at the University of Bucharest. This broke but after one year to be trained independently artistically.
Outside of Romania, especially in Paris, she developed skills as a painter and sculptor. In 1932 she married her childhood friend Frederick star at the age of 22 years. In 1941, she fled from the Nazis to New York to be with her husband. Through his friendship with Peggy Guggenheim, she met the New York art scene. After the divorce in 1944 she married Saul Steinberg, a born cartoonist and illustrator as well as in Romania, who became famous for his work The New Yorker, and was U.S. citizen. About children is not known. 1960 star split from Steinberg amicable.
During the late 1940s, was Hedda member of The Irascible Eighteen, a group of abstract painters who were protesting against the setting of the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the painting of this decade. This group has been immortalized by the famous photo from 1950: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.
From 1992 she worked with the art dealer Philippe Briet, in 1994 the writer Michel Butor imagined her. It began a collaboration for the book project "La Révolution dans l' Arboretum ", published in September 1995.
She has served on numerous shows and exhibitions in New York and worked as an artist before a macular degeneration prevented her from painting. Nevertheless, they continued to draw. With 94 years star suffered a stroke that affected her eyesight and ability to walk in such a way that she had to finish her art.
She died on 8 April 2011 at the age of 100 years.
Her works are found in collections of several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ) in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC as well as the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC
Publications
- Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda Sterne; A Retrospective. , 2006.