Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson ( born September 23, 1899 in Kiev, Ukraine, † April 17, 1988 in New York; born as Leah Berliawsky ) was an American sculptor and painter.

Biography

Louise Nevelson was born as the youngest daughter of the orthodox Jewish Russian couple Berliawsky Isaac (1871-1946) and Minna Sadie ( ground squirrel ) Smolerank ( 1877-1943 ) in Perejaslav southeast of Kiev. Her father emigrated to America in 1902 and operational in Rockland, Maine, a sawmill. The family followed in 1905 by and Anglicized their names. In the parents' house Yiddish was spoken. Berliawsky attended Rockland High School, which she successfully completed in 1918. Shortly thereafter, she attended an art school, where she studied painting and sculpture in Augusta.

In 1920 she married the wealthy Charles Nevelson, co-owner of a shipping company, and moved to New York where she their son Myron (* 1922), known as Mike gave birth to him. In 1929 she continued her studies at the Art Students League of New York. In 1931 she separated from Charles Nevelson. She took in the same year to study in Munich with Hans Hofmann and learned Cubism know. Over the next three decades, Louise Nevelson worked with Hofmann, Diego Rivera and Stanley William Hayter. In 1941 she had her first solo exhibition in the Charles kidney Village Gallery in New York. Her work has been strongly influenced by Cubism, African sculptures, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. In January 1943, found the " Exhibition by 31 Women" at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery in Manhattan instead. She showed only painters, except Nevelson work for example works by Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Dorothea Tanning and others were issued.

The Louise Nevelson Plaza was named after her first one presently living artist dedicated Plaza in downtown New York. The Plaza forms a triangle between Maiden, William and Liberty Street.

Work

Focus of her work form large, relief and stele-like assemblages of furniture fragments and wood waste, usually with black, but also white or gold paint.

Louise Nevelson was a participant of the documenta III (1964 ) and the Documenta 4 (1968 ) in Kassel. She had been 260 solo exhibitions and is represented in some 90 public collections worldwide.