Louise Nevelson

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Louise with granddaughter Neith Nevelson , 1965

Louise Nevelson (born September 23, 1899 in Perejaslaw , Russian Empire , † April 17, 1988 in New York ; born Leah Berliawsky ) was an American sculptor and painter .

biography

Louise Nevelson was born as the youngest daughter of the Orthodox-Jewish Russian couple Isaac Berliawsky (1871-1946) and Minna Sadie (Ziesel) Smolerank (1877-1943) in Perejaslav, southeast of Kiev. Her father emigrated to America in 1902 and ran a wood sawmill in Rockland , Maine. The family followed in 1905 and anglicized their names. In the family home was Yiddish spoken. Berliawsky attended Rockland High School, which she successfully graduated in 1918. Shortly afterwards she attended an art school in Augusta , where she studied painting and sculpture .

Atmosphere and Environment X (1969/70), assemblage at Princeton University

In 1920 she married the wealthy Charles Nevelson, co-owner of a shipping company, and moved with him to New York, where they gave birth to their son Myron (1922-2019), called Mike . In 1929 she continued her studies at the Art Students League of New York . In 1931 she separated from Charles Nevelson. In the same year she began studying with Hans Hofmann in Munich , where she got to know Cubism . For the next three decades, Louise Nevelson worked with Hofmann, Diego Rivera, and Stanley William Hayter . In 1941 she had her first solo exhibition at the Karl Nierendorf Gallery in New York. Her work was strongly influenced by Cubism, African sculpture , Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso . In January 1943 the "Exhibition by 31 Women" took place in Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery in Manhattan . It only showed female painters, apart from Nevelson's work, for example, works by Frida Kahlo , Meret Oppenheim , Dorothea Tanning and others were exhibited. Louise Nevelson worked a lot with the medium of ceramics in the 1940s . Her most important ceramic work is a terracotta group of 15 moving-static moving figures that was created around 1945.

The Louise Nevelson Plaza was named after her - the first plaza in downtown New York to be dedicated to a currently living artist. The plaza forms a triangle between Maiden, William and Liberty Streets. Nevelson was also inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1968 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.

plant

The focus of her work is on large, relief and stele-like assemblages made from furniture fragments and wood waste, usually with black, but also white or gold paint.

Louise Nevelson took part in documenta III (1964) and the 4th documenta (1968) in Kassel. So far she has had 260 solo exhibitions, for example in 2014 in Die Galerie in Frankfurt am Main and is represented in around 90 public collections worldwide.

See also

Literature and Sources

  • Jürgen Claus : Plastic, art and play: Louise Nevelson , in: Jürgen Claus: Kunst heute , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1965.
  • The sculpture of Louise Nevelson: constructing a legend. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2007, ISBN 978-0-300-12172-8 (therein: chronology, exhibition history, bibliography).
  • K. Okuyama, C. Prats-Okuyama: Louise Nevelson. Center Georges Pompidou Service Commercial, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-85850-905-0 .
  • Arnold B. Glimcher: Louise Nevelson. 2nd ed. Dutton Books, New York 1976, ISBN 0-525-47439-0 .
  • Julia M. Busch: A Decade of Sculpture. The New Media in the 1960's. The Art Alliance Press, Philadelphia; Associated University Presses, London 1974, ISBN 0-87982-007-1 .
  • Laurie Wilson: Louise Nevelson. Iconography and sources. Garland, New York, 1981, ISBN 0-8240-3946-7 .
  • Marika Herskovic: American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s. An illustrated survey. New York School Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-9677994-1-4 .
  • Louise Nevelson. National Gallery Berlin, State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, June 5 - July 1, 1974. (Text: Wieland Schmied ). National Gallery, Berlin 1974.
  • Germano Celant: Louise Nevelson. Edition Praeger, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7796-4010-4 . (Illustrated book).
  • documenta III. International exhibition. Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964.
  • IV. Documenta. International exhibition. Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968.
  • The gallery: Creativity Shaped My Life , catalog de / en, Frankfurt am Main 2014.

Web links

Commons : Louise Nevelson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Wikiquote: Louise Nevelson  - Quotes
Wikiversity: sample work Louise Nevelson  - course materials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robin Clark: "Louise Nevelson." In: Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. March 20, 2009. Jewish Women's Archive.
  2. ^ Mary V. Dearborn: I have no regrets! , P. 293 ff
  3. ↑ Tamara Préaud and Serge Gauthier: The art of ceramics in the 20th century . Edition Popp im Arena Verlag , Würzburg 1982, ISBN 3-88155-099-2 , p. 96 .
  4. ^ Victorious against all obstacles in FAZ from August 9, 2014, page 14
personal data
SURNAME Nevelson, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berliawsky, Leah (maiden name); Berliavski, Leia; Berliawsky, Louise; Berliawsky Nevelson, Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Perejaslav , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1988
Place of death new York