Marta Pan

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Marta Pan, 1995

Marta Pan (born June 12, 1923 in Budapest , Hungary , † October 12, 2008 in Paris , France ) was a French abstract sculptor of Hungarian descent.

life and work

Marta Pan was born in Budapest in 1923 as the daughter of the engineer Sigismond Pan and his wife Marie Pan, b. Piltzer, born. After finishing school she studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest. In 1946 Pan moved to Paris , where she met Constantin Brâncuși and Fernand Léger . In 1952 she married the architect André Wogenscky (1916-2004), who was Le Corbusier's assistant . Her early sculptures were influenced by Le Corbusier's architecture.

View of Anse with the 25 m high metal sculpture Signe infini in the background
André Wogenscky in front of the house in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse

In 1956 she created her sculpture Le Teck , which consists of two movable wooden parts. The choreographer Maurice Béjart created a ballet of the same name. Béjart's Ballet premiered on the roof of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation building in Marseille , performed around the sculpture. Until 1960, all of Pan's sculptures contained this two-part construction method, which allowed the work to be changed.

Her highest and widely visible work is the metal sculpture Signe infini created in 1993 at the junction of the A6 and A46 motorways near Anse in France. In 2001 she was represented at the Blickachsen 3 exhibition in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe with the sculpture Floating Plastic 7 .

Marta Pan's abstract work is associated with geometric simplicity and themes of balance and equilibrium. It refers to its surroundings: to the landscape, changing light, wind and water as well as to the surrounding architecture. The materials used were wood, marble, metal, polyester and plexiglass.

Marta Pan Foundation - André Wogenscky

Marta Pan died in Paris on October 12, 2008. The childless couple appointed the Foundation Marta Pan - André Wogenscky, which they had founded, as heiress . It is based in the studio house in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, built by André Wogenscky in 1952 and shared with them .

The foundation was registered in 2011, it owns the copyrights, the house and the sculpture garden, both of which have been part of the Monument Historiques as inventaire supplémentaire since 1997 . The property is open to the public.

Public collections (selection)

  • Sculpture flottante , (1960/61) Sculpture Park at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

  • Sculpture flottante , sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

  • Amphithéâtre , (2005–2007), sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Marta Pan - Praemium Imperiale , Praemium Imperiale, accessed November 12, 2014.
  2. ^ André Wogenscky , whoswho.fr, accessed on November 3, 2016
  3. ↑ Le Teck , citypercussion.com, accessed November 4, 2016
  4. ^ Pan - Artists - Collection Societe Generale , Société Générale, accessed on November 12, 2014.
  5. ↑ Marta Pan , blickachsen.de, accessed on November 6, 2016
  6. ↑ Photos of the house , flickriver.com, accessed on November 3, 2016
  7. ↑ See web link Fondation Marta Pan - André Wogenscky
  8. ↑ Floating Sculpture no.3 , Lynden Sculpture Garden, accessed November 23, 2014.
  9. ↑ Public ArtWalk Dallas , Public ArtWalk Dallas, accessed November 1, 2016.
  10. ↑ Marta Pan , coubertin.fr, accessed November 4, 2016
  11. ^ Marta Pan , Saint Quentin en Yvelines, accessed November 13, 2014.
  12. ↑ A forest of sculptures - Simon Spierer Collection
  13. ↑ Marta Pan , coubertin.fr, accessed on November 2, 2016

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Pan, Marta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pán, Márta (Hungarian name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor of Hungarian descent
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2008
Place of death Paris , France