biography
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Nevelson, Louise
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née Berliawsky
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1899–1988)
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| biography:
| Sculptor and printmaker, born in Kiev, Ukraine. Her family settled in Portland, Maine, USA, in 1905. She studied with the influential theorist Hans Hofmann in Munich and at the Art Students' League in New York City (1929–33). In 1932 she worked as an assistant to the Mexican mural-painter Diego Rivera. She is best known for her ‘environmental’ sculptures - abstract, wooden, box-like shapes stacked up to form walls and painted white or gold. In 1966 she began to use ‘plexiglas’ and aluminium. |
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