Herbert Ferber

Herbert Ferber ( born April 30, 1906 in New York, USA; † August 20, 1991 in North Egremont, Massachusetts; born Herbert Ferber Silvers ) was an American sculptor. He was an important representative of abstract art after the Second World War.

Life

Ferber originally studied dentistry before studying at Columbia University until 1927 Art and 1927-1930 sculpture at the Beaux Art Institute of Design in New York. In 1930 he attended the National Academy of Design in New York. Herbert Ferber took ' part of Congress in 1936 and became a member of the Artists ' at the first American Artists Union.

Ferber had his first exhibition in 1937 in the Midtown Galleries in New York. In 1940 he founded together with Meyer Schapiro, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Ilya Bolotowsky, Bradley Walker Tomlin, and David Smith, the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors as a splinter group from the American Artists ' Congress. He was elected in 1941 to the Board of Sculptors ' Guild (along with Chaim Gross, Robert Laurent and Hugo Robus ). In 1959 he took part in documenta 2 in Kassel.

His sculpture has evolved from initial massive figures of wood and stone to abstract, differentiated metal objects made ​​of lead, tin, copper, steel and bronze, often of several metals.

From 1962 to 1963, Ferber visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and from 1965 to 1967 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He gave lectures at the 1967 Morse College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and until 1979 at Rice University in Houston, Texas.