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Article about Elevazione, Vers Beton
Sara Wiersma wrote about Penone’s work Elevazione for the Rotterdam focused online publication Vers Beton. (Dutch)…
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George Rickey’s sculpture Two Turning Vertical Rectangles damaged
In 2015, after a three-year absence, George Rickey’s sculpture Two Turning Vertical Rectangles returned to the Binnenwegplein. Sadly, the joy upon its return was short lived: the sculpture was seriously damaged when a truck backed…
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Lebbeus Woods
Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) was an architect based in New York. He is often associated with the group of avant-garde architects including Coop Himmelb(l)au and Daniel Libeskind. Their deconstructivist architecture has influenced younger generations of architects…
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Fritz Wotruba
Fritz Wotruba was born in 1907 in Vienna to a Czech father and a Hungarian mother. In the early 1920s he trained to be an engraver and took lessons in sculpture under Anton Hanak. He…
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Ossip Zadkine
Ossip Zadkine was born in Vitebsk in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1888. At the age of fifteen he was sent by his father to Sunderland in the north of England to…
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Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin is considered one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century. He was born in Paris in 1840. He began his studies at the age of thirteen at the Ecole Spéciale…
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Carel Visser
Carel Visser was born in Papendrecht in 1928. He helped to transform Dutch sculpture after the Second World War. He initially studied architecture at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft and then studied at the Academie…
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Oswald Wenckebach
Ludwig Oswald Wenckebach was born in 1895 in Heerlen. Around 1910 he began studying with his uncle, the painter Willem Wenckebach. He then received a classical art education at the Kunstnijverheidsschool in Haarlem and from…
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Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg (Sweden, 1929 – New York City, 2022) grew up in the United States, where he trained to be an artist. In the 1960s he became one of the most important representatives of Pop…
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Giuseppe Penone
Giuseppe Penone was born in 1947, the son of a farmer in the countryside near Turin. He has developed a close relationship with nature and many of his works are based on ecological processes.
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George Rickey
George Rickey, born in South Bend, Indiana (US) in 1907. Died in Saint Paul, Minnesota on 17 July 2002.
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John Ahearn, Rigoberto Torres
John Ahearn was born in Binghamton in the United States in 1951, and studied art at Cornell University in upstate New York. After graduating, he went on to make films in Manhattan. He created masks…
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Henri Laurens
Henri Laurens was born in 1885 Paris, where he lived and worked until his death in 1954. He studied set painting and sculpture and took evening classes in drawing. After meeting the Cubist artist Georges…
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Umberto Mastroianni
Umberto Mastroianni is considered one of the most important Italian artists of the twentieth century. He was born into a family of artists in 1910 in Fontana Liri, and worked in the family’s workshop from…
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Hendrick de Keyser
Hendrick de Keyser was born in 1565 in Utrecht, the son of the Utrecht-based master cabinetmaker Cornelis Dirxzoon de Keyser. He was trained by the Utrecht-based architect and sculptor Cornelis Bloemaert. When Bloemaert moved to…
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