Sonia Sekula
Sonia Sekula (18 April 1918 – 25 April 1963) (also known as Sonja Sekula) was a Swiss-born artist linked with the abstract expressionist movement.
She was born in Lucerne on 8 April 1918 to a Swiss mother, Berta Huguenin (1896–1980), and a Hungarian father, Béla Sekula (1881–1966), a philatelist.
She lived in America from 1936 to 1955.
She attended Sarah Lawrence College.
She met the surrealists in exile in New York during 1942.[1]
On 25 April 1963 she hanged herself in her studio in Zurich after many years of mental health issues. [2]
She is buried in St. Moritz as she had requested in a letter to her mother.[1]
Exhibitions
- 1943 - Group show 31 Women Artists, Art of this Century Gallery, New York
- 1948 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
- 1957 - Galerie Palette, Zurich, Switzerland
- 1996 - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (1 June - 11 August)
- 1996 - Sonja Sekula (1918–1963): A Retrospective, Swiss Institute, New York, USA (12 September - 26 October) [3]
Bibliography
- Womb - poem and drawing - VVV, March 1943
- Who was Sonia Sekula?, Art in America, October 1971 [4]
- A Golden Girl Escaping Into Infinity, New York Times, 20 September 1996[3]
- Dunkelschwestern - Annemarie von Matt und Sonja Sekula, by Roger Perret and Roman Kurzmeyer, 2008
- Sekula, Sonja in the SIKART dictionary and database
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