Noemí Gerstein

Argentine artist, sculptor (1910–1996)

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Noemí Gerstein

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

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

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

1982, Konex Foundation Platinum Award - non-figurative sculpture^[8]

References

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^ ^a ^b Turner, Jane (2000). Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean art. Oxford University Press.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b "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.
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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.