Nelli Bar
Nelly Bar
Standing Nude
Bronze
before 1966
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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Nelli Bar also Nelli Bar Wieghardt (born May 7, 1904 in Cologne , † October 29, 2001 in Foulkeways , Pennsylvania ) was a German sculptor .
life and work
After graduating from high school in 1920, Bar began training as a kindergarten teacher. In 1922 she decided to train as a sculptor. From 1923 she attended an evening class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . From 1924 to 1925 he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Cologne with Wolfgang Wallner and Grasegger and from 1926 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Karl Albiker . In 1931 she finished her studies in Dresden with distinction and went to Paris with Paul Wieghardt , her future husband , where she began studying with Aristide Maillol .
Travel and study trips to Portugal and Norway with Paul Wieghardt followed. When the war broke out, both were in Oslo . Since Nelli Bar was Jewish, they fled when the German troops marched into Sweden . She and her husband emigrated to the USA in 1940 via the Soviet Union , Japan and Panama .
Through the Quaker Refugee Program, they were accommodated in a hotel in Cummington , Hampshire County , Massachusetts . Nelli Bar then found employment at a school in Cummington Hills and the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield . In 1943 the couple moved to Philadelphia , where Nelli Bar started a small private art school. She had her first exhibition at the Carlen Gallery and she met Albert C. Barnes . Like her husband, Nelli Bar received a teaching post from 1946 to 1958 at the art school of the Art Institute of Chicago . From 1957 to 1967 she taught at the University of Chicago , 1950 to 1975 at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and from 1962 to 1982 at the Evanston Art Center. One of her students was the internationally renowned African American sculptor Richard Hunt.
plant
- Standing Nude (before 1966) bronze, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Smithsonian Institution , Washington, DC
Exhibitions (selection)
Exhibitions in Paris
- Salon d'Automne
- Salon des Indépendants
- Salon des Tuileries
Exhibitions in the USA
- Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass.
- Harvard University , Cambridge, Mass.
- Bonestell Gallery, New York, NY
- Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass.
- Illinois Institute of Technology , Chicago, Illinois
- Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
Participation in exhibitions
- Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago
- Knoedler Galleries, New York
- Carlen Gallery, Philadelphia
- British American Art Center, New York
- Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
- Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
literature
- Nelli Bar Wieghardt interviews, 1987 July 9 - 1989 Apr. 29 . 4 voice cartridges, Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- Dietmar N. Schmidt: Modern art in North Rhine-Westphalia. A museum guide . DuMont Literature and Art Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7256-4 , p. 352
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bar, Nelli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 2001 |
| Place of death | Foulkeways , Pennsylvania |