Sonia Ebling

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Arminda , created in the 1980s, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo
Sofia , Catacumba Park, Rio de Janeiro

Sonia Ebling de Kermoal (born November 19, 1918 in Taquara , Rio Grande do Sul , † January 16, 2006 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian abstract-figurative sculptor and art college teacher.

Life

Ebling studied painting and sculpture from 1944 to 1951 at the Escola de Belas Artes do Rio Grande do Sul and the Escola de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro, where she settled. As early as 1951 she took part in the first São Paulo Biennale and in 1955 won an international travel award for Europe at the Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro for her sculpture Mulher e Pássaro , where she stayed until 1968.

In Paris she studied with Ossip Zadkine , in 1963 she received a scholarship from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian . During this time she also exhibited in Germany and other European countries.

She had numerous exhibitions, including important ones such as the 11th Salon de la Jeune Sculpture in 1959 at the Musée Rodin in Paris, the Bienal de Arte Tri-Veneta in Padua , and at the Salon des Petits Bronzes in 1962 at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris and the 18th Salon de Réalités Nouvelles in 1963. Until 1967 she took part in the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 8th to 9th editions of the São Paulo Biennale.

Her sculptures mainly deal with the female figure in cast bronze , which taper proportionally towards the head, while the torso and legs are strongly formed. Her works also include a number of animal sculptures.

After returning to Brazil, she gave sculpture courses at the University of Art and Design of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) from 1970 , where she also worked with cement to which color pigments were added.

She lived and maintained her studio in the Copacabana district of Rio, where she died at the age of 87.

The Brazilian art critic Jacob Klintowitz wrote about her work:

“Sônia Ebling is a sculptor of refined forms, carefully worked out and balanced. What is significant for the artist is that she devours pre-Columbian, African and Egyptian forms. This search for the sources is in fact the means of exploring contemporary sculpture, its work approaches the relationship with the origin, such as the work of Henry Moore, Brancusi, Giacometti, Marino Marini. "

- Klintowitz, 1969

Works

literature

with catalogs and illustrated books

  • Armindo Trevisan: Sonia Ebling. A escultura dialética. In: Escultores contemporâneos do Rio Grande do Sul. Editora da Universidade / UFRGS, Porto Alegre 1983.
  • Sonia Ebling. Bronze. Skultura Galeria de Arte, São Paulo 1986.
  • Sonia Ebling. Esculturas in bronze. Skultura Galeria de Arte, São Paulo 1988. Text: Jacob Klintowitz.
  • Sonia Ebling. 40 anos de escultura. Skultura Galeria de Arte, São Paulo 1992.
  • Sonia Ebling. Esculturas in bronze. Skultura Galeria de Arte, São Paulo 1999.
  • Sonia Ebling. Esculturas. Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro 2001.
  • Jacob Klintowitz: Sonia Ebling. A natureza da criação. Marcus L Vieira Galeria de Arte, São Paulo 2001.
  • André Blau, Lúcia Elena Prianti (ed.): Sua obra, sua vida. Nova André Galeria, São Paulo 2004.

Web links

Commons : Sonia Ebling  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original text . Retrieved July 8, 2017 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Ebling, Sonia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ebling de Kermoal, Sonia; Ebling, Sonia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian sculptor and art college teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Taquara , Rio Grande do Sul
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2006
Place of death Rio de Janeiro