Alicia Penalba
Alicia Penalba (born August 9, 1913 in San Pedro near Buenos Aires , Argentina , † November 4, 1982 in Paris , France ) was an Argentine-French sculptor . She was one of the most important representatives of abstract art after the Second World War .
Life
Alicia Penalba moved to Paris in 1948 on a grant from the French government . In 1949 she studied with Ossip Zadkine at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and at the Academie Argentina de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. She lived and worked most of her life in Montrouge and Paris, France. The first exhibition of her works was in 1955 in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles , her first solo exhibition in Paris in the Galerie du Dragon .
Her art received international recognition in the 1950s and 1960s. She was - among other things - a participant in documenta 2 in 1959 and also in documenta 3 in 1964 in Kassel and won the prize for sculpture at the São Paulo Biennale in 1961. Her works - mainly abstract bronze sculptures borrowed from natural forms - have been shown at numerous exhibitions shown worldwide.
literature
- Wolfgang von Sauré (ed.); René Wolf, Jean-Louis Ferrier: The abstract natural forms of the sculptor Penalba . Exhibition catalog for: Alicia Penalba - sculptures 1955–1978 , exhibition in Luzern 1981, Paris 1981
- Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Penalba, Alicia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine-French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Pedro near Buenos Aires , Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 1982 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |