Noemí Gerstein Explained

Noemí Gerstein
Birth Date:	November 10, 1910
Birth Place:	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Death Place:	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. 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." She had a preference for metallic constructions, such as Constellation (1963), which used small pieces of tubing. 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

• Book: Cao , Marián L. F. . Creación artística y mujeres: recuperar la memoria. Spanish. 2000. Narcea . Madrid. 84-277-1304-5.
• Book: Irigoyen , Taberna . Aproximación a la escultura argentina de este siglo. Spanish. 1967. Colomegna. Buenos Aires.

External links

• • Noemí Gerstein at Konex Foundation Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes' article
• Clarín's article
• El Arca article

Notes and References

1. Book: Sanjurjo. Annick. Contemporary Latin American Artists: Exhibitions at the Organization of American States 1941-1964. 1997. Scarecrow Press.
2. Book: Tierney, Helen. Women's Studies Encyclopedia. 1 January 1999. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-31072-0. 844–.
3. Book: Chase, Gilbert. Contemporary art in Latin America: painting, graphic art, sculpture, architecture. registration. 1 January 1970. Free Press. 162.
4. Book: Turner. Jane. Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean art. 2000. Oxford University Press.
5. Book: Singer. David. American Jewish Yearbook: A Record of Events and Trends in American and World Jewish Life. 1996. Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.. Scranton, PA. 0-87495-110-0.
6. Web site: Record for 'Abstracts vs. Figuratives; Geometric and Constructive Utopias'. Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. April 3, 2015.
7. Web site: 11 Women Artists to Know from Wikipedia's Edit-a-thon ArtSlant. ArtSlant. 2018-10-10.
8. Web site: Noemí Gerstein. Konex Foundation. 2 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20140413154621/http://www.fundacionkonex.com.ar/b1381-noem%C3%AD_gerstein. 13 April 2014. dead.