Noemí Gerstein
| Noemí Gerstein | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
November 10, 1910 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died |
June 14, 1996 (aged 85) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Known for |
Sculpture Illustration Plastic art |
Noemí Gerstein (1910[1][2] - 1996) was an Argentine sculptor, illustrator and plastic artist.
Gerstein was born in--and lived and worked in--Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1934, she began training under Alfredo Bigatti [3][4] In the 1950s, she received a government grant to travel to France, where she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris under the tutelage of Ossip Zadkine.[1][4] In 1952, Gerstein was one of the winners of the Institute of Contemporary Arts' design competition for the Unknown Political Prisoner Monument.[5][6] Gerstein's works were predominantly abstract, and she "experimented with new materials."[6] She had a preference for metallic constructions, such as Constellation (1963), which used small pieces of tubing.[2]
Selected works
- Monumento al prisionero político desconocido (1953)
- Madre e hijo (1953)
- Maternidad (1954)
- La familia (En ocasiones llamada "El Oráculo") (1960)
- El samurai (1961)
- Los amantes (1961)
- Nacimiento (1961)
- Goliath (1961–62)
- Meteorito (1969)
- Achiras (1973)
- L’Art et L’Homme (1974)
- Seoane Músicos
- Milagro de la vida
- Seres híbridos (1978)
Awards
- 1982, Konex Foundation Platinum Award - non-figurative sculpture[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sanjurjo, Annick (1997). Contemporary Latin American Artists: Exhibitions at the Organization of American States 1941-1964. Scarecrow Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tierney, Helen (1 January 1999). Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 844–. ISBN 978-0-313-31072-0.
- ↑ Chase, Gilbert (1 January 1970). Contemporary art in Latin America: painting, graphic art, sculpture, architecture. Free Press. p. 162.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Turner, Jane (2000). Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean art. Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Singer, David, ed. (1996). American Jewish Yearbook: A Record of Events and Trends in American and World Jewish Life. Scranton, PA: Haddon Craftsmen, Inc. ISBN 0-87495-110-0.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Record for 'Abstracts vs. Figuratives; Geometric and Constructive Utopias'". Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
- ↑ "Noemí Gerstein". Konex Foundation. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- Cao, Marián L. F. (2000). Creación artística y mujeres: recuperar la memoria (in Spanish). Madrid: Narcea. ISBN 84-277-1304-5.
- Irigoyen, Taberna (1967). Aproximación a la escultura argentina de este siglo (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Colomegna.
External links
- Noemí Gerstein at Konex Foundation (Spanish)
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes' article (Spanish)
- Clarín's article (Spanish)
- El Arca article (Spanish)
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