short biography

Louise Nevelson (Louise Berliawsky, b. 1899, Kiew/Ukraine; d. 1988, New York) was a sculptor and painter. 1943 she participated in the "Exhibition by 31 Women" in Peggy Guggenheim's Gallery 'Art of This Century' in New York. Her famous works were sculptural environments, large relief walls and assemblages dipped in black, white or gold color. Louise Nevelson studied at the Art School of Hans Hofmann in Munich and was Assistant to Diego Rivera.

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Amarillo Museum of Art Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham/Alabama Boca Raton Museum of Art Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit Crystal Bridges, Bentonville Currier Museum of Art, Manchester New Hampshire DIA Detroit Institute of Arts Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia Farnsworth Art Museum Fondation Cartier, Paris GAM Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin ° Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (closed) Honolulu Museum of Art ICA Miami KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura Kunstmuseen Krefeld Kunstmuseum Bochum Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse MACBA Barcelona ' MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA ° MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu . Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen Museum of Fine Arts, Boston New Art Centre, Salisbury Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Palmer Museum of Art Phoenix Art Museum Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton Smithsonian Institution, Washington South Bend Museum of Art Storm King Art Center The Nelson, Davis The Ringling, Sarasota UK Art Museum, Lexington University Art Museum, Albany Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro Whitney Museum, New York Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown .
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