Noemí Gerstein

Noemí Gerstein (November 10, 1910 – June 14, 1996) was an Argentine sculptor, illustrator and plastic artist.

Noemí Gerstein
BornNovember 10, 1910
Buenos Aires, Argentina
DiedJune 14, 1996(1996-06-14) (aged 85)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
NationalityArgentine
Known forSculpture
Illustration
Plastic art

Noemí Gerstein was born November 10, 1910,[1][2] in Buenos Aires, where she continued to live and work. 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] She died June 14, 1996.[7]

Selected works
  • Monumento al prisionero político desconocido (1953)
  • Madre e hijo (1953)
  • Maternidad (1954)
  • La familia (En ocasiones llamada "El Oráculo") (1960)
  • El samurai (1961)
  • Los amantes (1961)
  • Nacimiento (1961)
  • Goliath (1961–62)
  • Meteorito (1969)
  • Achiras (1973)
  • L’Art et L’Homme (1974)
  • Seoane Músicos
  • Milagro de la vida
  • Seres híbridos (1978)

Awards

References
  1. Sanjurjo, Annick (1997). Contemporary Latin American Artists: Exhibitions at the Organization of American States 1941-1964. Scarecrow Press.
  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. 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. "Record for 'Abstracts vs. Figuratives; Geometric and Constructive Utopias'". Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  7. "11 Women Artists to Know from Wikipedia's Edit-a-thon | ArtSlant". ArtSlant. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  8. "Noemí Gerstein". Konex Foundation. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  • Cao, Marián L. F. (2000). Creación artística y mujeres: recuperar la memoria (in Spanish). Madrid: Narcea. ISBN 84-277-1304-5.
  • Irigoyen, Taberna (1967). Aproximación a la escultura argentina de este siglo (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Colomegna.


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