Linda Kohen
Linda Kohen , actually Linda Olivetti Colombo , (born October 28, 1924 in Milan , Italy ) is a Uruguayan painter .
Life
The artist, who appears under the stage name Linda Kohen, which is made up of her real first name and her husband's last name, was born in Italy, but has lived - with interruptions - in Montevideo since 1940 and has Uruguayan citizenship. She completed her artistic training both with Pierre Fossey (drawing) in his studio in Plaza Independencia , and with Eduardo Vernazza (painting and drawing). From 1949 to 1970 she was a member of the Torres García studio ( Taller Torres Garcia ), where she worked with José Gurvich , Julio Alpuy and Augusto Torres . When she got married in 1946, she went to Buenos Aires for two years , where she also studied painting with Horacio Butler on Calle Arenales and took part in drawing sessions in the Circulo de Bellas Artes on Calle Florida . At that time their daughter Martha was born. In 1950 she gave birth to her son Roberto . After the death of her father in 1955 and the subsequent death of her grandmother, she took a career break of around four years in the second half of the 1950s.
During the dictatorship in Uruguay, she lived in Brazil from 1979 to 1985 .
Exhibitions
The first solo exhibition of her works took place in 1971 at the Galería Moretti in Montevideo. Numerous solo exhibitions in museums and galleries followed, not only in Uruguay and her native Italy, but also in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Rosario and Washington. These included the 1984 exhibition Assis Chateaubriand in the Museu de Arte de São Paulo , the one in the Museum of the Organization of American States (OEA) in Washington in 1985 and the 1994 exhibition in the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires. She has also participated in various group exhibitions since 1949.
literature
- Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, pp. 174f
Web links
- www.lindakohen.com , accessed August 29, 2014
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohen, Linda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Olivetti Colombo, Linda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italo-Uruguayan painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan , Italy |