Noemí Gerstein

Noemí Gerstein
Born November 10, 1910
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died June 14, 1996(1996-06-14) (aged 85)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Argentine
Known for Sculpture
Illustration
Plastic art

Noemí Gerstein (1910[1][2] – 1996) was an Argentine sculptor, illustrator and plastic artist.

Gerstein was born in –and lived and worked in– Buenos Aires. In 1934, she began training under Alfredo Bigatti [3][4] In the 1950s, she received a government grant to travel to France, where she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris under the tutelage of Ossip Zadkine.[1][4] In 1952, Gerstein was one of the winners of the Institute of Contemporary Arts' design competition for the Unknown Political Prisoner Monument.[5][6] Gerstein's works were predominantly abstract, and she "experimented with new materials."[6] She had a preference for metallic constructions, such as Constellation (1963), which used small pieces of tubing.[2]

Selected works

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 Sanjurjo, Annick (1997). Contemporary Latin American Artists: Exhibitions at the Organization of American States 1941-1964. Scarecrow Press.
  2. 1 2 Tierney, Helen (1 January 1999). Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 844–. ISBN 978-0-313-31072-0.
  3. ↑ Chase, Gilbert (1 January 1970). Contemporary art in Latin America: painting, graphic art, sculpture, architecture. Free Press. p. 162.
  4. 1 2 Turner, Jane (2000). Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean art. Oxford University Press.
  5. ↑ Singer, David, ed. (1996). American Jewish Yearbook: A Record of Events and Trends in American and World Jewish Life. Scranton, PA: Haddon Craftsmen, Inc. ISBN 0-87495-110-0.
  6. 1 2 "Record for 'Abstracts vs. Figuratives; Geometric and Constructive Utopias'". Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Noemí Gerstein". Konex Foundation. Retrieved 2 April 2015.


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