Louise Nevelson Biography
Louise Nevelson (Kiev, September 23, 1899 – New York, April 17, 1988) was a Ukrainian-born American sculptor. Having moved to the USA in 1905, she studied with KH Miller at the Art students league and with Hans Hofmann in Munich in 1931. She was Diego Rivera's assistant on the mural in the New York Workers School (1932). He then dedicated himself exclusively to sculpture, first in terracotta (inspired by pre-Columbian art, later also by archaeological studies in Mexico and Central America), and then moved almost exclusively to wood and then also, from 1968, to plexiglass and steel. He applied himself to monumental sculpture and assemblages, often using fragments of other artefacts (moulded pieces, chair and table legs, balustrades, columns), developing a poetics that oscillates between abstractionism and surrealism. Considered among the most significant exponents of the post-World War II period, she received important awards and commissions, including Transparent Horizon (1975) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bicentennial Dawn (1976) at the Courthouse in Philadelphia.
