Norah Borges
Norah Borges , actually Leonor Fanny Borges Acevedo , (born March 4, 1901 in Palermo , Argentina , † July 20, 1998 there ) was an Argentine artist and art critic.
Life
Borges was the daughter of the lawyer and writer Jorge Borges Haslam and his wife Leonor Acevedo Suárez. The writer Jorge Luis Borges was her older brother.
In 1914, shortly before the outbreak of World War I , Borges traveled to Geneva with her family . Her brother, who was in danger of going blind, was supposed to undergo eye surgery there. During this time, Borges was taught there by her parents and later by private tutors.
In the summer of 1919 Borges traveled to Mallorca to work in the studio of the painter Sven Westman (1867–1962). Together with her brother, who had accompanied her, she also founded the magazine Baleares there . She later moved to Julio Romero de Torres , a painter in Madrid . There she made u. a. made the acquaintance of the writer Juan Ramón Jiménez and illustrated some of his books.
When her family traveled back to Argentina in 1921, she began to study sculpture with Maurice Sarkisoff (1882–1946) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva . With the support of her teacher, she was able to move to Arnoldo Bossi's studio in Lugano in 1924 .
Through her brother she made the acquaintance of various artists of the Grupo Florida and soon became an important member. In 1928 Borges married the writer Guillermo de Torre in Buenos Aires , whom she had already met in Spain in 1920; the couple had two children.
During the Second World War Borges supported together with María Rosa Oliver , Annemarie Heinrich u. a. the Junta de la Vitoria by Cora Ratto de Sadosky and Ana Rosa Schlieper .
Norah Borges died on July 20, 1988 in Buenos Aires, where she found her final resting place in the family vault at La Recoleta Cemetery .
literature
- Essays
- Caleb Bach: The other Borges. Often in the shadow of her older brother, Norag Borges embodies the artistic movement of the early 20th century . In: The Americas , Vol. 2 (2007), p. 37, ISSN 0003-1615 .
- Sergio Baur: Norah Borges. Musa de las Vanguardias . In: Cuadernos hispanoamericanos , Vol. 610 (2001), pp. 87-96, ISSN 0011-250X .
- Eam McCarthy: Flirting with futurism. Norah Borges and the Avant-garde . In: International yearbook of futurism studies , Vol. 5 (2015), pp. 111–135, ISSN 2192-0281 .
- Camilia Sutherland: "El Pájaro de Cuatro Notas". The reception of Argentine women writers and artists' work in avant-garde magazines . In: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies , Vol. 23 (2017), pp. 399-416, ISSN 1469-9524 .
- Monographs
- Gabriela García Cedro: Boedo y Florida. Una antología . Ed. Losada, Buenos Aires 2006. ISBN 950-03-9474-X .
- Fernando Huici (Ed.): Fuera de orden. Mujeres de la vanguardia española, María Gutiérrez Blanchard , Norah Borges, Maruja Mallo , Olga Sacharoff, Angeles Santosí, Remedios Varo . Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, Madrid 1999. ISBN 84-89455-27-9 . (Exhibition catalog)
- May Lorenzo Alcalá: Norah Borges. La Vanguardia Enmascarada . Ed. Eudeba, Buenos Aires 2009, ISBN 978-950-23-1697-0 .
- Daniel E. Nelson: Five central figures in Argentine avant-garde and literature. Emilio Pettoruti , Xul Solar , Oliverio Girondo , Jorge Luis Borges, Norah Borges . University Press, Austin Tex. 1989.
Individual representations
- ↑ Your brother is buried on the Cimetière des Rois in Geneva.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borges, Norah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borges Acevedo, Leonor Fanny (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine artist and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo , Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1998 |
| Place of death | Palermo , Argentina |