Herbert Ferber

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

Life

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

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

His sculpting developed from massive figures made of wood and stone to abstract, differentiated metal objects made of lead , tin , copper , steel and bronze , often made of several metals.

From 1962 to 1963 Ferber was visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia and from 1965 to 1967 at Rutgers University , New Brunswick , New Jersey . He gave 1,967 lectures at the Morse College of Yale University , New Haven in Connecticut and until 1979 at the Rice University in Houston , Texas .

Ferber married the German art historian and émigré Ilse Falk for the second time in 1944.

literature

  • 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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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falk Silvers, Ilse , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 142f.
personal data
SURNAME Ferber, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferber Silvers, Herbert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1991
Place of death North Egremont , Massachusetts , USA